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- I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires…
- The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
- You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't…
- What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
- It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had…
- The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed…
- He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the…
- Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
- In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,…
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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