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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reali

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. – Walter Benjamin

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Facts
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin

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Manners
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin

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Death
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The multitude is always wrong. – Proverb

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Minorities are individual or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified. – Jos

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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. – Henry David Thoreau

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The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. – Gerald Jampolsky

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The failure of the United Nations – My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. – Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. – Jean Paul

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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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