#ann

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. ↗

— Mary Astell

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