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No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which…
— Aristotle
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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all the religion you…
— Mario Cuomo
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Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;…
— Simone Weil
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The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the…
— Mary Fulbrook
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
— Max Lerner
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Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.
— Steven Morrissey
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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn…
— Philip Roth
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,…
— Larry McMurtry
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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
— Mark Twain
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I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this…
— Denis Johnson
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You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the…
— Anton Chekhov
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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The…
— Mark Twain
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Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in…
— Newton Arvin
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One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.
— Kanye West
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