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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making

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 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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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. – Hannah Arendt

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A liar is always lavish of oaths. – Pierre Corneille

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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift

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