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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.

Hannah Arendt

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
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Argument Avoid Control Present
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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Act Action Possible
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
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Greatness Poet Survive
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
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Easy Hands Life Love Time Yourself
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
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
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Absence Power Violence
To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Road Sanity
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Attraction Politics Won
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Old Philosophy Truth
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.
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Art Believe People Politics
The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.
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Ideas Life

For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.

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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.

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