Hannah Arendt Quotes
Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve my service.
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I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
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The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.
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A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.
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Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.
