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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

Anatole France

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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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 not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Determination Dream Planning
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
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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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement

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