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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its…
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very…
— Hannah Arendt
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
— Richard Armour
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left…
— J. J. Abrams
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons,…
— Karen Armstrong
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Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
— Mary Kay Ash
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel…
— Chinua Achebe
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now…
— Teresa of Avila
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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid…
— John Avlon
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come…
— Michele Bachmann
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I left school on my 15th birthday.
— David Bailey
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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left…
— Russell Baker
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
— Russell Baker
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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in…
— Emily Greene Balch
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes…
— James A. Baldwin
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the…
— Balthus
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