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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
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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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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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