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One Quotes by Rita Dove
- One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come,…
- Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to…
- I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't…
- I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
- Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
- If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they…
- If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at…
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- 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