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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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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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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. – Walter Benjamin

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Attitude
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – Walter Benjamin

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All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. – Anon.

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. – Chinese Proverb

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Criticism

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. – Louis Aragon

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Criticism

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. – Bible

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