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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.

Anatole France

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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 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
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
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
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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

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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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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