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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. - Walter Ben

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. – 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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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. – Walter Benjamin

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Art
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In charity there is no excess. – Francis Bacon

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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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Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7 – Bible

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Charity

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. – Ron Paul

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You follow any family around, youre going to see elation, youre going to see disharmony. – Joan Jett

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I believe in singularity in relationships because youve got to have trust on both sides. – Thomas Haden Church

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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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