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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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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinion
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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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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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If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you dont get all the facts, it cant be right. – Bernard Baruch

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Facts cant be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. Ive already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets whats behind them. – Augusto Roa Bastos

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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings. – Sharon Anthony Bower

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

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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. – Hugh Blair

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The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you cant eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as progress, doesnt spread. – Andy Rooney

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Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak. – Charles R. Swindoll

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