Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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