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- We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate…
- I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better…
- A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all…
- I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
- Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and…
- The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of…
- Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
- Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the…
- Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without…
- When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by…
- Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one…
- Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
- Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
- Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.
- Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in…
- Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like
- Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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