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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

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
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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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Himself Principle
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man

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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