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- Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus,…
- Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have…
- I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you,
- Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being…
- All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.
- All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially…
- Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be…
- Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to…
- Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are…
- When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of…
- Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization…
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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