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- All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
- The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for…
- All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call…
- All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
- I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
- All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
- To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever…
- It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
- I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
- To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink…
- Shopping: I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't want
- To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave the way the rich behave, is like supposing that we could…
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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