The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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