"In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about……" — Sarah Churchwell
"In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power."
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10 Quotes by Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell has 10 quotes on this site.
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Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
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History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have…
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History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party:…
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Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not…
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The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of…
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps…
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Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration,…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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