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- If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes…
- Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we…
- It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to…
- In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius