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- The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America,…
- What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal…
- What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power;…
- Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
- The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle