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- Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles…
- Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
- A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how…
- Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people…
- What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
- When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily…
- People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning…
- The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
- When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict…
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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