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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness

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