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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#endure #god #him #lack #man

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

— Jean Rostand

#always #doubt #ideal #same #varies

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#power #say #suspicious #vocation

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

#i #want #well

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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