Hannah Arendt Quotes
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.
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Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
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I knew nothing when I first met him. He taught me to see things through his eyes. Dalí was my teacher. He let me use his brushes, his paint and his canvas, so that I could play around while he was painting for hours and hours in the same studio. Surrealism was a good school for me. Listening to Dalí talk was better than going to any art school.
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Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
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If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.
