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- There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack…
- The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
- Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
- Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
- Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
- works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift…
- Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it.…
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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