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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt
Under conditions
Tyranny
Act
Think
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Hannah Arendt
Point
Dreams
Come true
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti political forces.
Hannah Arendt
Love
Nature
Reason
Powerful
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Don’t you hate when a song has been out for a minute and it’s mad dope but you are the last to get on it
DJ Spinall
Song
Minute
Dope
Mad
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My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
Marian Wright Edelman
About
Afraid
Been
Community
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes
Hannah Arendt
Punishment
Possessed
Power
Deterrence
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Marian Wright Edelman
Against
Biggest
Biting
Committed
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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
Hannah Arendt
Action
Distinguished
Fabrication
Possible
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As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake
Hannah Arendt
As citizen
Wrongdoing
World
All live
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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
Marian Wright Edelman
America
Billionaires
Breaks
Children
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution
Hannah Arendt
Revolutionaries
Power
Street
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
Hannah Arendt
Old truth
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Stood
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I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
Marian Wright Edelman
Tough
Believe
Sense
Strongly
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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
Hannah Arendt
One
Greatest
Advantages
Elite
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
Marian Wright Edelman
Easy
Interesting
Less
Life
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We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.
Marian Wright Edelman
About
America
Capacity
Care
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Always
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Declaration
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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.
Marian Wright Edelman
Been
Birth
Children
Consequences
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
Marian Wright Edelman
About
Assassination
Been
Deep
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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.
Marian Wright Edelman
Activists
Always
Building
Committed
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Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Finish
Honor
Kennedy
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The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home.
Marian Wright Edelman
Aware
Children
Go
Home
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.
Marian Wright Edelman
Always
Anybody
Bear
Being
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
Marian Wright Edelman
Challenge
Going
Me
Never
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins
Atheists
Authority
Automatically
Beliefs
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Hannah Arendt
War
Luxury
Small nations
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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.
Hannah Arendt
Revolutionary action
Theatrical concession
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins
About
Belief
Institutions
Passage
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
Richard Dawkins
About
Doubt
Earth
Evolution
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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
Legends attract
Test
Times
Ideologies attract
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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
Hannah Arendt
Slavery
Social condition
Laboring classes
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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.
Hannah Arendt
Hardly
Better way
Discussion
Releasing
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Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
Hannah Arendt
Taken away
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Proper object
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But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
Hannah Arendt
Moral question
Answer
Legally relevant
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,
Hannah Arendt
Mass leaders
Power
Lies
Propaganda
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The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
Hannah Arendt
Last century
Abundance
Ideologies
History
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The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
Hannah Arendt
National crime
Violated
Constitutional right
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning
Age
Crystal
Deemed
Dew
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet
Robert Browning
Arms
Burn
Cheeks
Clutch
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My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
Richard Dawkins
Bit
Decision
Default
Drift
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I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
Richard Dawkins
Age
Confirmed
Prep
School
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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Robert Browning
Art
Glory
Good
Least
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Harlan Ellison
Day job
Money
Please yourself
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Richard Dawkins
Age
Existence
First
Intelligent
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Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Richard Dawkins
About
Among
Anything
Certain
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Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.
Harlan Ellison
Dismaying aspect
Excellence
Living
World
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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning
Casts
Height
Measure
Mind
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Then he said the truest thing about their relationship. He said, "We didn't really fall in love. What we did was collide at the intersection of your life and mine.
Harlan Ellison
Relationship
In love
Intersection
Life
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning
Discern
Finite
Hearts
Infinite
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Robert Browning
Before
Bent
Carve
Ever
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