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- History admits no rules; only outcomes.
- Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an'…
- Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds,…
- Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
- We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
- Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
- If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections.…
- Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
- ... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until…
- Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast…
- - This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are…
- I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if…
- Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
- I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And…
- The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other.…
- Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle