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- I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
- We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very…
- We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
- I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem…
- All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
- The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then…
- I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to…
- We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
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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