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- The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly…
- The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem…
- The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
- One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of…
- Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the…
- It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided…
- Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a…
- This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much…
- And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore…
- See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
- The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend…
- So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,'…
- The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane…
- David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and…
- Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of…
- And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The…
- The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did…
- This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much…
- ... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant…
- Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
- And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
- What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched…
- The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking…
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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