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- At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has…
- The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.
- I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles,…
- If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the…
- Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With…
- It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and…
- The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated…
- It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
- I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay,…
- It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art…
- The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most…
- You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt…
- Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching…
- My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person,…
- I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing.…
- Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.
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- 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