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- What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,…
- ...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in…
- The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does…
- The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a…
- All blessings are mixed blessings.
- When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside;…
- The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the…
- That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real…
- In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
- Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death…
- What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid…
- I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good…
- All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
- We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
- Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that…
- Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this…
- The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's…
- You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.
- We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
- From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
- There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
- The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some…
- What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
- We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know…
- …he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the…
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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