All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCEDetermination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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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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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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