"He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say."

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Walter Benjamin

#May Quotes #Events Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”
“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”
“I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.”
“Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.”
“You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8.”
“Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.”
“Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution”
“People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!”

Source : "Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left". Ward Churchill's Speech in Oakland, California, November 16, 2001.

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