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

Anatole France

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
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
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
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People

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