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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a… — Hannah Arendt
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means… — Hannah Arendt
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… — Hannah Arendt
I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also… — Alexis Arguello
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they… — Aristophanes
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by… — Aristotle
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. — Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in… — Aristotle
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a… — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has… — Aristotle
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in… — Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul,… — Aristotle
I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the… — Julian Assange
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. — Dean Acheson
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which… — Paul Auster

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