If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEArmenia 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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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 rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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