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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. - Ha

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. – Hannah Arendt

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. – Hannah Arendt

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. – Hannah Arendt

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Death
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. – Emile Chartier

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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