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- One word of truth outweighs the whole world.
- In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit…
- I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and…
- If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained…
- There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one…
- Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
- The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
- Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One…
- In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
- A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted…
- The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the…
- When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
- Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.
- If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
- To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.
- Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme,…
- A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
- No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
- The one who pulls is the one they urge on.
- I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having…
- One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority…
- How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
- If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
- Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
- Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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