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- What matters most is that we learn from living.
- It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is…
- It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.…
- Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we…
- A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
- With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no…
- What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen.…
- A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers…
- Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades,…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster