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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

Anatole France

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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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 history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
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 the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character 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
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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End Life People
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

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