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

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.'

  

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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.

  

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• Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

  

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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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• The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.

  

  William James
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• I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
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• My mother actually does most of my shopping for me. I love fashion, but I don't really love shopping.

  

  Danielle de Niese
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• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  

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

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Evil
  • Banality