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- If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through…
- Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
- The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the…
- The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -…
- The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
- At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in…
- Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are…
- The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I…
- Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness,…
- The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.
- He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
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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