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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

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
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Himself Principle
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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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Discover Kind Truth
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time

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