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- If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when…
- Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable…
- A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
- For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than…
- Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which…
- The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For…
- A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from…
- The beet is the most intense of vegetables
- Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no…
- White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a…
- Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before…
- Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
- Most novelists write about twisted lives.
- Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
- The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out…
- What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny…
- That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to…
- The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the…
- Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until…
- The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich.…
- As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty…
- Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to…
- I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for…
- Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond…
- Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its…
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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