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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

Anatole France

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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
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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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
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
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
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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 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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
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 not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

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