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One Quotes by E L Doctorow
- And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no…
- Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.
- In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact…
- The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas…
- Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
- I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
- One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of…
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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
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- 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