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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

Anatole France

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal

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