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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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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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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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