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Book cover for Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
The Electoral College was never designed to protect small states against the tyranny of larger states—not at its inception and not today. Instead, it served to protect
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Hannah Arendt
“Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.”
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt
“Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public.”
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt
“For love, although it is one of the rarest occurrences in human lives,81 indeed possesses an unequaled power of self-revelation and an unequaled clarity of vision for the disclosure of who, precisely because it is unconcerned to the point of total unworldliness with what the loved person may be, with his qualities and shortcomings no less than with his achievements, failings, and transgressions. Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others.”
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt
“To anticipate, and put it in a nutshell: The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The”
Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind: The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think

Hannah Arendt
“Plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.”
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

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