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

Anatole France

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
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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

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