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- Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in…
- Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
- Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to…
- I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe…
- That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such…
- This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as…
- The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel,…
- I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a…
- Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
- Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.
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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