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- A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure…
- It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
- My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when…
- But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of…
- When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there…
- I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
- It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt