Hannah Arendt Quotes
The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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“The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.
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People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.
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The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
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Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
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The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
