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- All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing.…
- The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry…
- That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it,…
- The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have…
- The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
- All great art is born of the metropolis.
- The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set…
- The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of…
- It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
- The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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- 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
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- 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