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thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

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Hannah Arendt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1906
Born: October 14
Died: 1975
Died: December 4
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Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
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