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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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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. – Walter Benjamin

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Attitude
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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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Experience
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who dont do anything about it. – Albert Einstein

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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. – Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller

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Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. – Crystal Eastman

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I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. – Robert Mueller

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