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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is

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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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – 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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Someones opinion of you does not have to become your reality. – Les Brown

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. – Warren Buffett

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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. – Bernard Baruch

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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree. – Irving Batcheller

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