Walter Benjamin Quotes
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
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I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.
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I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
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Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once you accept your worrying as the act of choosing specific thoughts, you can consciously make an effort to avoid those thoughts that cause you needless pain and choose more constructive, positive thoughts.
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Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.
