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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

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• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  

  Jack Hanna
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• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• The gratification of desire is not happiness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
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• I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
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• My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'

  

  Tanc Sade
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• Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.

  

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• My patriotism is subservient to my religion. I cling to India like a child to its mother’s breast, because I feel that she gives me the spiritual nourishment I need. She has the environment that responds to my highest aspiration.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
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• Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.

  

  Randall Jarrell
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• I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.

  

  Ben Carson
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• My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

  

  Ally Sheedy
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• People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

  

  Eric Garcetti
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• You don't have to live on a farm to have chickens; in some places, you just need a little bit of green space and a tidy chicken coop. To me, they're nearly ideal pets. They feed us more often than we feed them! We have 2 chickens, Goldie and Paprika, and they each produce 1 egg a day, sometimes more.

  

  Amy Robach
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• We drink our morning coffee with a drop of fear.

  

  John Twelve Hawks
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• Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

  

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd
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• Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Evil
  • Banality