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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. - [Ideas] In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfection. - [Perfection] Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience; which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. - [Poets] Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. - [Promises] Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. - [Story Telling] There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. - [Thought] Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. - [Tyranny] Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. - [Guilt]
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