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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allenborn 1935
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
Woody Allenborn 1935Examining Psychic Phenomena
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
Martin Amis1949–2023“First Lady on Trial” The Sunday Times [London] (17 March 1996) (Online text in PDF format)
People don’t change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.
Martin Amis1949–2023“Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin” (1997)
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In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
Martin Amis1949–2023“Gore Vidal” (1977)
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
JAJohn Anster1793–1867Often credited to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt1906–1975The New Yorker (12 September 1970)
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The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good? The good is no longer even being measured.
Hannah Arendt1906–1975Interview with French writer Roger Errera in New York Review of Books (1974)
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One swallow does not make a summer.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1098a; §7 as translated by W. D. Ross
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle384–322 BCRhetoric, Book I, 1369a.5
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle384–322 BC
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book III, 5
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong1930–2012
The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888God and the Bible (1875)
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 2