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Most Quotes by E L Doctorow
- I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
- The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
- Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.
- It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.
- In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact…
- History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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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