The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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