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The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.

Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon.
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Government Politics
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
Hitlerism exercised its strong international and inter-European appeal during the thirties because racism, although a state doctrine only in Germany, had been a powerful trend in public opinion everywhere.
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Opinion Powerful Race
Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
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Evil Lost Quality
The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.
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Commitment Evil Greatness Human Person
It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.
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Difference Equality Literature
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.
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Easy Forget Goodness True World
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
Evil comes from a failure to think.
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Evil Failure Thinking
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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Death Kill People
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.
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Heart Man Mindset Passion
Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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Beginning Born Death Man

The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.

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The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.

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