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- Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves…
- When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it…
- All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.
- You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
- History is all explained by geography.
- This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event…
- If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid…
- Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There…
- The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him.…
- For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines…
- It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me…
- Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's…
- You live through...that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-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
- 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