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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – 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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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 idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin

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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. – Proverb

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Contraries are cured by contraries. – Proverb

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Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. – W. H. Auden

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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. – French Proverb

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Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off. – Nicholas Brendon

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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. Its still better than high school. – Dan Savage

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To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard. – David Soul

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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. – Arianna Stassinopoulos

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