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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – 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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Walter Benjamin
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These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. – Walter Benjamin

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Apathy
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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Birth
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the 60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on – her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it. – Emmanuelle Chriqui

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Beauty

A person however learned and qualified in his lifes work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant. – Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Beauty

I have a book out called The Beauty Equation and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty. – Nigel Barker

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Beauty

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. – Jean Anouilh

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Beauty

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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. – Robert E. Lee

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Government is dysfunctional. – Michael Bloomberg

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Force without forecast is to little avail. – Proverb

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One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. – Paul Wolfowitz

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