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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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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. – Hannah Arendt

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt

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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. – Hannah Arendt

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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. – Carl Jung

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. – Hannah Arendt

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. – William Dean Howells

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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

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