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- In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that…
- Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
- However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their…
- If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To…
- When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While…
- a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog…
- Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time…
- The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when…
- He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free…
- Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we’re unaware…
- I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and…
- To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits…
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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