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Life Quotes by Michael Ignatieff
- Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel…
- In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the…
- One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth,…
- In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
- All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really…
- For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance…
- I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — 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 do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle