Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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