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- Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out…
- More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.
- Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct…
- I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of…
- The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or…
- One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself…
- The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
- We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.
- ... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or…
- Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
- We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.
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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