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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.

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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Biologist
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
Paris
France
People
Inexact
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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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Kill one man, and you are murderer.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
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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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Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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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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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
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God, that checkroom of our dreams.
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