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- What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into…
- I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
- I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world.…
- A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would…
- What, what am I to do with all of this life?
- She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die.…
- Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I…
- They had never had one in the house before. The strangeness of it all. Like unleashing A lion, really. Poised To pounce. A puma. A…
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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