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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.

Anatole France

But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
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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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement

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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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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