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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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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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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. – Abraham Cowley

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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the worlds great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak. – Ralph Chaplin

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People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others. – Robert Jensen

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