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  1. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice who lacks the magic formula to break the spell.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Human Condition, Part 5, ch. 33 “Irreversibility and the Power to Forgive” (1958)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10022/

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  2. A quotation from Thomas Fuller

    Boast not of thy good Deeds, lest thy evil Deeds also be brought upon the Board.

    Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
    Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 1855 (1727)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…

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