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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. – Hannah Arendt

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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. – Hannah Arendt

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History
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. – Hannah Arendt

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good
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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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Violence
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Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemys dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski

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Violence

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. – Sam Peckinpah

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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

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If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG. – Jack Nicholson

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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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My grandfathers family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me. – Giada De Laurentiis

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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt. – Joe Baca

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