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- Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive…
- Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling…
- Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
- Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of…
- We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into…
- All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz…
- The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
- Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not…
- Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
- For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
- What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
- I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long…
- ...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often…
- Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us…
- Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some…
- No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.…
- I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the…
- It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be…
- Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are…
- When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.…
- learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you.…
- This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may…
- Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if…
- Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it.…
- Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you.…
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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