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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.

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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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
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
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price

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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