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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

Anatole France

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
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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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
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
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship

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