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- The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous…
- The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future…
- If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin…
- I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around,…
- The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help…
- The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better…
- The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
- I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was…
- If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens…
- Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive…
- The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history…
- Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority,…
- It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible.…
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- 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