Aristotle Quotes

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Aristotle

• Mankind
• Avarice
• Insatiable

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• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
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• I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.

  

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• I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

  

  Cam Newton
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• On eroding, ecologically degraded, increasingly toxic landscapes, worked by failing or subsidy-dependent farmers and by the cheap labor of migrants, we have erected the tottering tower of 'agribusiness,' which prospers and 'feeds the world' (incompletely and temporarily) by undermining its own foundations.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World

• Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.

  

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• Are you in the car that's almost caused three accidents on North Vance?" Hannah asked. "Because I'm following you with my lights flashing, and whoever's driving isn't pulling over." "Let him go," Claire said. "Trust me. You aren't going to get him to stop." "Oh, God. It's Myrnin, isn't it?" "Tell that police lady to stop chasing me," Myrnin said, annoyed, from the front seat. "Really, I'm not THAT bad at this.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

  

  T. Allen Lawson
  • Up
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• The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
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• So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

  

  Aristotle
  • Respect
  • Mankind
  • Rule

• Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Business
  • Laughter
  • Rivers

• Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Daughter
  • Humorous

• The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mankind
  • Avarice
  • Insatiable