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- Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start…
- A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention…
- Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you…
- But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your…
- Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work…
- You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to…
- What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge.…
- Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their…
- Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
- To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if…
- Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that…
- Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
- You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No…
- Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter…
- People ask without wanting to know.
- It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
- You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
- People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
- People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
- It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so…
- Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble…
- There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always…
- Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door?…
- Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
- Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — 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
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — 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
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle