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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#flashes #image #instant #never #only

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#composed #good #good prose #musical #prose

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#community #obey #off #people #rules

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#accompanied #always #any #better #drawbacks

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#concentrate #even #going #had #keep

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#consistent #crimes #done #errors #more

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#big #causes #complicated #crime #know

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#catches #dog #education #federal #federal level

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#assets #bolsheviks #bridges #build #built