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 was a 20th-century American and american historian and philosopher. Hannah Arendt was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation

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