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Quote by 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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – 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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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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

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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. – John Adams

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Carelessness is worse than a thieve. – Scottish Proverb

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. – William Hazlitt

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Im not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. Shes very protective. – Coco Lee

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger. – Proverb

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Ive never made choices based on money – I always trust my gut. – David James Elliott

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