Walter Benjamin Quotes
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
Quotes to Explore
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I want to love life.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.
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C has the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language.
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Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
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With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.
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Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
