Quotes with benjamin

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  • Walter Benjamin The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Benjamin Watson The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn't expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Banneker The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Walter Benjamin The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Benjamin Watson The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The discontented man finds no easy chair.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The doors of wisdom are never shut.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
    Address to Unitarian Ministers
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Graham The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Uni
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The first mistake in public business is going into it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Cohen The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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