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- To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.
- The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers
- Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools,…
- To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at…
- In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can…
- no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.
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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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- 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