If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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I love zoo sanctuaries. ~Nancy Travis
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. ~Bill Wyman
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