This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

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About Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (, US also ; German: [ˌhana ˈaːʁənt] ; born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century.

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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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Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

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The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

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The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older — namely, as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.