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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

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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End Life People
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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 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
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 the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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 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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Equality Food Poor Rich
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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
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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Himself Myself Touch World

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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