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.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe 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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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