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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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. – Walter Benjamin

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The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. Proverbs 11.25 – Bible

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The trick is to realize that after giving your best, theres nothing more to give. – Sparky Anderson

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. – Walter Benjamin

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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. – Andy Rooney

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Change before you have to. – Jack Welch

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