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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Biologist
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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
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It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.
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Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
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Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
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What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
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We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.
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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
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Kill one man, and you are murderer.
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The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
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Theories pass. The frog remains.
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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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God, that checkroom of our dreams.
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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
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