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- Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his…
- We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably…
- The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in…
- You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it.
- The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of the…
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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