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- The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
- I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at…
- All new learning looks at first like chaos.
- We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it…
- The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go…
- False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
- One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all…
- Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
- The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs…
- Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
- in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel…
- My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after…
- It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
- I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings
- Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way…
- Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure…
- All that we might have been, all that we werefire, tears, wit, taste, martyred ambition stirs like the memory of refused adultery the drained and…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle