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- You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a…
- And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier.…
- The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until…
- We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how…
- In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go…
- All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
- I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our…
- And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide…
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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