Aristotle Quotes
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
