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People Quotes by Gerald Brenan
- We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
- Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
- Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
- One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history…
- Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
- The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those…
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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