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- What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
- Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having…
- It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because…
- Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be…
- Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,†Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.†Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who…
- Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we…
- In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of…
- In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals,…
- It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the…
- Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
- I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he…
- YOU LET ME DROWN!†Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!†he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET…
- All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them -…
- So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother…
- Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle