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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
— Hannah Arendt
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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
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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
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
— Aristotle
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
— Aristotle
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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