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The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.
Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1906
Born: October 14
Died: 1975
Died: December 4
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I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi .
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Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
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It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
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every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.
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