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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

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
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
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
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
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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
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

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