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- All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
- It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does…
- Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know…
- There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the…
- I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference again. When two…
- A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the…
- Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
- It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way.…
- We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.
- A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks…
- In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating…
- We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of…
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all…
- I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing…
- What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.
- I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness…
- The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.
- I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at…
- A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years…
- Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning…
- It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago…
- He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
- And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory…
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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