Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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