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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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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Book Library Myself People
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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Equality Food Poor Rich
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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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature

Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.

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