Hannah Arendt Quotes
If we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
Quotes to Explore
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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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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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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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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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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It's been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private sector. And I've proven over time to be a great leader.
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I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first. Think drunk Darth Vader. Or Barry White singing country. It suits my dark material. When I do readings, I really play it up and go subterranean. I can make the phone book sound terrifying.
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If we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
