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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far m

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

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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Past, the
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Walter Benjamin
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. – Walter Benjamin

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Memory
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. – Francis Bacon

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Measure three times before you cut once. – Proverb

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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in mens heads. – Fogg Brackell

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Carelessness is worse than a thieve. – Scottish Proverb

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