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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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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. – Walter Benjamin

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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension. – John Dos Passos

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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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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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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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