"But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant."
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"The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price we pay for the fact that we live our lives not by ourselves but among our fellow men, and that the faculty of action, which, after all, is the political faculty par excellence, can be actualized only as one of the many and manifold forces of human community."
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"None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history."
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"I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom"
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"I can never tell if guys are attractive in a loserly way or if they're just losers."
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"I'm scared, okay? I'm really scared all the time."
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"I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me."
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"In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge toward self-display which answers the fact of one’s own appearingness. Living things make their appearance like actors on a stage set for them."
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"The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts."
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"What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form."
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"To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one’s own arrival and will survive one’s own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death."
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"To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends."
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"This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself."
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"I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer--ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top."
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"Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for thinking (“freedom of the pen”)=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment."
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"In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two."
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