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- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
- As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
- Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the…
- A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army…
- This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of…
- The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural…
- The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
- Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto…
- I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a…
- One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work,…
- We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.
- The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
- Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
- Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.
- Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
- Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and…
- Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
- Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.
- Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
- The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even…
- All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!
- It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
- Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get…
- Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The…
- In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate.…
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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