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- I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He…
- There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.
- Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more…
- Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was,…
- The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but…
- Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
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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