If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEDetermination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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