To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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