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Small: All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in
"All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected"
Albert Speer, Criminal
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Small: Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind
"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind"
Johannes Brahms, Composer
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Small: I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War.
Fritz Sauckel
"I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier"
Fritz Sauckel, Soldier
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Small: Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy
"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy"
Lukas Foss, Composer
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Small: Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration
"Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration"
Hans Frank, Public Servant
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Small: There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actual
"There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best"
Graham Coxon, Musician
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Small: It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian
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Small: Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but somethin
"Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes"
Ulrich Beck, Sociologist
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Small: And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and
"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world"
Anne Frank, Writer
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Small: We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action for we have not the oppor
"We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light"
Johannes P. Muller, Scientist
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Small: The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespr
"The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations"
Ernst Mayr, Scientist
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Small: On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me.
"On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom"
Adelbert von Chamisso, Poet
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Small: All the modern verse plays, theyre terrible theyre mostly about the poetry. Its more important that the play i
"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first"
Denis Johnson, Writer
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Small: Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this
"Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling"
Friedrich Schleiermacher, Theologian
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Small: Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God
"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God"
Karl Rahner, Theologian
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Small: Research is what Im doing when I dont know what Im doing
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing"
Wernher von Braun, Scientist
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Small: But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only
"But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only"
Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher
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Small: Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort oursel
Friedrich Nietzsche
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: Evil men have no songs. How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche
"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: Without music, life would be a mistake
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Without music, life would be a mistake"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: In individuals, insanity is rare but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule
Friedrich Nietzsche
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to liv
Friedrich Nietzsche
"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one
Friedrich Nietzsche
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value
Friedrich Nietzsche
"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: There is an innocence in admiration it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, mig
Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experie
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstanc
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this per
Friedrich Nietzsche
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its adv
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star
Friedrich Nietzsche
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: He who has a why to live can bear almost any how
Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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Small: Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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