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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#blatant #draw #error #sometimes #truths

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#during #end #i #i tried #me

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#always #doubt #ideal #same #varies

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#certain #future #men #might #moments

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#enough #extremely #hated #little #low

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. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#basis #built #certain #few #ideal

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#our time #people #spend #time #whom

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#any #appear #current #day #error

Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator. ↗

— Karl Rove

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Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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