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- But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They…
- Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John…
- No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
- I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it…
- That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
- Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the…
- There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
- The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
- I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an…
- A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
- You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a…
- Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do…
- We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have…
- We write to make sense of it all.
- I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
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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 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
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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