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- Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
- It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.
- So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that…
- One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers…
- No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds…
- Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our…
- There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
- The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the…
- But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary…
- Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome…
- Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
- there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human…
- When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he…
- An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
- I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call…
- That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and…
- A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
- When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith…
- Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this:…
- I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in…
- And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people?…
- Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You…
- So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
- If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
- In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour