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Quote by Hannah Arendt
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a numb

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less… – Hannah Arendt

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