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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 know and what you don't.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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