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- Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced to the fact…
- The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
- This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to…
- And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American…
- Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
- It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to…
- The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants…
- What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the…
- Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care…
- ...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath…
- New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
- Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
- The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city…
- There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so…
- Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
- There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book…
- The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.
- On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says,…
- The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety…
- I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets…
- I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most…
- The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see
- egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it…
- So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start…
- We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out…
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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