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- Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the…
- Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook…
- Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party…
- [Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it…
- We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love…
- ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are…
- I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's…
- Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because…
- The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
- I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or…
- I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides…
- Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with…
- ...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....
- A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things…
- It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
- Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able…
- (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family…
- Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could…
- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
- The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
- Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the…
- Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only…
- Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is…
- We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of…
- There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — 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
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle