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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us. – Anon.

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Fix the problem, not the blame. – Japanese Proverb

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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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