Quote by Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has o

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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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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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. – Hannah Arendt

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History takes time. History makes memory. – Gertrude Stein

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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. – G. Gordon Liddy

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Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. – Paul Ryan

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