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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#convictions #facts #far #life #more

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#destructive #feeling #life #lives #living

I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#because #education #education programs #i #i can

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#expression #favour #free #free expression #i

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#color #designate #developing #french #french people

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#i #land #meets #never #none

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#easier #go #hill #than #top

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#function #heaven #hell #hell is #inferno

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#best #best way #divide #into #need

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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