Hannah Arendt Quotes
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.
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Marlantes tells us that his road to recovery required learning to tell the truth, even if that truth was brutally painful.
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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
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Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
