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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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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.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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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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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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