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 write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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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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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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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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Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
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We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.
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All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.
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The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."
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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.
