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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Anatole France

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
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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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 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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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
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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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

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