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I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

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It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. ↗

— Louis Aragon

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ↗

— Diane Arbus

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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 rotten to the core. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to. ↗

— Asia Argento

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ↗

— Aristotle

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Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful. ↗

— Paula Abdul

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The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

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