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- Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism…
- Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.
- Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science…
- The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are…
- Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike…
- Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best…
- The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the…
- If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination.…
- The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle