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- I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
- I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight…
- I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related,…
- We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from…
- When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
- But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
- I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you…
- As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you…
- Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
- You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and…
- Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.
- Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had…
- The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if…
- I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had…
- That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and…
- All seasons have something to offer
- Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.
- God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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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