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- I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just…
- Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
- It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
- All adventure is now reactionary.
- All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs…
- Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.
- Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and…
- We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills,…
- A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach…
- He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he…
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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
- 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