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Quote by Anatole France
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. – Anatole France

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Courage
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. – Anatole France

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God
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

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Greed
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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. – Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 1941

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A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. – Norman Cousins

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