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- I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
- As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has…
- To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is…
- I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but…
- Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine,…
- The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
- I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may…
- Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter…
- Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the…
- Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none…
- The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of…
- Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s.…
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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