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- We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging…
- Courage and fear were one thing too.
- It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our…
- We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
- The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops…
- I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.
- Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but…
- At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of…
- Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can…
- And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her…
- The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a…
- Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives…
- I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of…
- Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
- For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he…
- Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
- Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.
- There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling…
- Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his…
- And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would…
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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
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- 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
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