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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.

Anatole France

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
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
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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
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 be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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 Dream Greatness Planning
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner

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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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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