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Gustav Heinemann quote: "Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it..."

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

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Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts. M. F. K. Fisher
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. Leland Stanford
You don't speak much, do you?" ter Borcht said, circling him slowly. Fittingly, Fang said nothing. Vhy do you let a girl be de leader?" ter Borcht asked, a calculating look in his eye. She's the tough one," Fang said. Dang right, I thought proudly. Is dere anysing special about you?" asked ter Borcht. "Anysing vorth saving?"Fang pretended to think, gazing up at the ceiling. "Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica. James Patterson
Natalia Ginzburg quote: "You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate..."
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials. Natalia Ginzburg
Thomas Paine quote: "Virtue is not hereditary."
Virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. Gertrude Stein
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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. Jim Morrison
The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings. Thomas Merton
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval. Susan B. Anthony
Billy Crystal quote: "To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing."
To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing. Billy Crystal
As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” Willingness is the single most important test. Orson Scott Card
We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded. David Cone
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. Lawrence Halprin
I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate. Mikhail Lermontov
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Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you. Jane Austen