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"I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know."
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Jeffrey Archer

"I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know."

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"And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?"
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Archilochus

"And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?"

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"Old women should not seek to be perfumed."
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Archilochus

"Old women should not seek to be perfumed."

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"Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away."
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Archilochus

"Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away."

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"Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having."
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Elizabeth Arden

"Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having."

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"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
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Elizabeth Arden

"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."

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"There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen."
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Elizabeth Arden

"There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen."

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"I only want people around me who can do the impossible."
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Elizabeth Arden

"I only want people around me who can do the impossible."

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"I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men."
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Elizabeth Arden

"I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men."

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"Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here."
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Elizabeth Arden

"Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here."

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"Every woman has the right to be beautiful."
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Elizabeth Arden

"Every woman has the right to be beautiful."

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"Hold fast to life and youth."
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Elizabeth Arden

"Hold fast to life and youth."

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"Hold fast to youth and beauty."
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Elizabeth Arden

"Hold fast to youth and beauty."

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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
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Hannah Arendt

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

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"The Third World is not a reality but an ideology."
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Hannah Arendt

"The Third World is not a reality but an ideology."

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"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
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Hannah Arendt

"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."

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"The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."
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Hannah Arendt

"The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."

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"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."
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Hannah Arendt

"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."

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"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."
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Hannah Arendt

"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."

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"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."
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Hannah Arendt

"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."

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"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."
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Hannah Arendt

"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."

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"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."
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Hannah Arendt

"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."

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"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."
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Hannah Arendt

"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."

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"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being."
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Hannah Arendt

"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being."

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"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
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Hannah Arendt

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

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"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."
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Hannah Arendt

"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."

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"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses."
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Hannah Arendt

"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses."

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"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."
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Hannah Arendt

"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."

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"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."
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Hannah Arendt

"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."

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"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."
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Hannah Arendt

"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."

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"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
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Hannah Arendt

"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."

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"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny."
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Hannah Arendt

"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny."

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"It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past."
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Hannah Arendt

"It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past."

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"By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality."
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Hannah Arendt

"By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality."

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"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
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Hannah Arendt

"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."

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"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."
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Hannah Arendt

"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."

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"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."
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Hannah Arendt

"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

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"Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse."
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Hannah Arendt

"Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse."

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"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."
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Hannah Arendt

"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."

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"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence."
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Hannah Arendt

"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence."

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"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
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Hannah Arendt

"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."

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"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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Hannah Arendt

"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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"Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx."
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Hannah Arendt

"Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx."

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"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."
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Hannah Arendt

"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."

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"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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Hannah Arendt

"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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"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."
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Hannah Arendt

"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."

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"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."
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Hannah Arendt

"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."

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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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Hannah Arendt

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."

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"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."
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Hannah Arendt

"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."

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"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."
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Hannah Arendt

"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."

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