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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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End Life People
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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
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 accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset 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
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
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
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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