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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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. – Hannah Arendt

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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. – Hannah Arendt

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