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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of autho

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. – Hannah Arendt

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. – Hannah Arendt

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To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. – Hannah Arendt

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. – Chinese Proverb

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By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way. – John le Carre

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The age of a woman doesnt mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasnt a matter of them missing me. I was missing them. – Jane Pauley

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