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- The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent,…
- The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did…
- They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would…
- The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and occasionally the chance to feel strong.
- It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by…
- Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to…
- It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated…
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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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- 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