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- I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. (William Wordsworth) [music/more]
- Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. (Dean Acheson) [more]
- There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. (Douglas Adams) [universe/willpower/more]
- There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. (Joseph Addison) [more/business]
- There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. (Joseph Addison) [opinion/more/nature/instinct]
- It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. (Joseph Addison) [more/perfect/more]
- There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. (Joseph Addison) [more/being]
- A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants... (Joseph Addison) [more]
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. (Joseph Addison) [nature/more/agreeable/conversation]
- There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. (Joseph Addison) [more/beauty]
- Man knows more than he understands. (Alfred Adler) [more]
- The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. (Alfred Adler) [feeling/more/more]
- Man know much more than he understands. (Alfred Adler) [more]
- The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance. ( Akhenaton) [willpower/more/mind/joy]
- More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. (Woody Allen) [more/time/mankind/path]
- Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. (Woody Allen) [capital/punishment/more/measure]
- To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. (Hannah Arendt) [more/integrity/divorce]
- What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin. (Hannah Arendt) [willpower/willpower/more/willpower]
- The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object. (Hannah Arendt) [demand/more/more/development]
- The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together. (Hannah Arendt) [normal/viewpoint/more]
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. (Hannah Arendt) [more/relations/more/reputation]
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ( Aristotle) [more/life/art]
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ( Aristotle) [property/desire/more/more]
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ( Aristotle) [poetry/more/poetry]
- This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. ( Aristotle) [more/more/more]
- The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate. ( Aristotle) [perfect/more]
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. ( Aristotle) [more/soul & body]
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ( Aristotle) [human/more/chance/nature]
- They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else. ( Aristotle) [life/think/more/feeling]
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. (Thomas Arnold) [knowledge/value/more]
- Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. (Antonin Artaud) [more/culture]
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