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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. - Hann

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

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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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Violence
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. – Hannah Arendt

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Words
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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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Promises
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Other Quotes from
Promises
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He was ever precise in promise-keeping. – William Shakespeare

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Promises

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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Promises

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. – Sydney J. Harris

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Promises

Eggs and oaths are easily broken. – Danish Proverb

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Promises

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She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. – Margot Asquith

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wedding

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton

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Love

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Medical

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

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Ideas