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- A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have…
- A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
- Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than…
- In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much…
- God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into…
- But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that…
- No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in…
- Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
- It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world…
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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