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- If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion…
- I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was…
- Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise. If…
- Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.
- Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms -…
- The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart. Taken together, these…
- All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess ...
- Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but…
- It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and…
- For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when…
- All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs.…
- It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to…
- All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.
- My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango…
- The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with…
- Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
- It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
- Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down…
- What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get…
- We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up…
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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