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- But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.
- The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.
- Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as…
- On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to…
- Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
- But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children,…
- A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- 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
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- 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