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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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