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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Anatole France

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
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 Dream Greatness Planning
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
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
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
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
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

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