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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has 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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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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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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