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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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The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Kant ... discovered the scandal of reason, that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.
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For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.
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the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
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