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One Quotes by Craig Brown
- One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
- Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
- You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish…
- One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap…
- The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.
- A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
- It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a…
- Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted…
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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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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle