Hannah Arendt Quotes
A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
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I need you, and with your love I'm free And truly, you know you're alright with me.
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... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
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Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.
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That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.
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claire:dont do anything dumb or ill kill you myself shane:ouch girl whatever happend to unconditional love around here
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A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
