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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

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
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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 fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
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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Discover Kind Truth
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth

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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