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One Quotes by Wallace Stegner
- But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They…
- No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
- There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my…
- A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose…
- One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
- Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been…
- No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
- One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the…
- Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are…
- Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
- It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we…
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- 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
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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