Hannah Arendt Quotes
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.
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It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
