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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
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Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
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