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- Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the…
- Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for…
- ...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way…
- All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national…
- Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,…
- Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both are…
- You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that…
- Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded.…
- To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes,…
- For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient…
- He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an…
- I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will…
- Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look…
- Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong