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- Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
- All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know
- That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them…
- It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the…
- There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a…
- Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.
- To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most…
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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