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One Quotes by Michael Crichton
- The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator…
- In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and…
- Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another - like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of…
- The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed…
- Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the…
- We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free…
- I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.
- Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite…
- This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things…
- And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan…
- You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.
- No one escapes from life alive.
- They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.
- But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their…
- We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- 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