On Prayer and The Contemplative Life
By: Thomas Aquinas
3.97
Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition
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By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
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4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
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3.93
Format: 233 pages,
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By: Booker T. Washington
4.30
Format: None pages, cloth
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3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
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3.85
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By: None , None
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
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4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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3.83
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4.27
Format: 127 pages,
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3.97
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3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
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By: C.S. Lewis
4.05
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
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16. On Prayer and The Contemplative Life
By: Thomas Aquinas
3.97
Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition
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