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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German-born U.S. political philosopher. The Human Condition, pt. 3, ch. 16 (1958).

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