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- All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly…
- What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and…
- Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
- I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form…
- I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece…
- I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.
- Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire…
- My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't
- The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be…
- We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all…
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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