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Book cover for Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams

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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

Adam Bede

by George Eliot

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Gorgias

by Plato

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“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

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“No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature’s wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

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“Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

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“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

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“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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