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"If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew." »Albert Einstein
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"I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me." »Bette Midler
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"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth." »Mark Twain
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"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world." »Albert Einstein
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"I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin." »Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, President, ELDR 1995-2000, Foreign Minister 1982-1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003
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"A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance." »Clark Kerr
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"The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit" »Heinrich Heine
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"All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government." »SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
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"Public speaking is very easy." »Dan Quayle
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"“Interrupt your own speaking with your own actions."" »Steve Maraboli
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"An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking." »Cato the Elder
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"Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent." »Andrew Alden
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"Oysters speaking doesn''t give a pearl." »Charles de LEUSSE
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"I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party." »Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies
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"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price." »Juvenal
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"“When your intent and your actions are aligned, you are speaking directly to God."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death." »Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
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"To abstain from speaking is regarded as very difficult. It is not possible to say much that is valuable and striking.*" »Mahabharata
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"There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable." »Voltaire
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"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death." »Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
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"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." »Saint Jerome
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"Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl. (Les huîtres qui parlent n'ont pas de perle)" »Charles de LEUSSE
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"If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money." »John Updike
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"(Speaking about Satchel Paige's pitching)It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble." »Hack Wilson
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"A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German." »Mark Twain
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"Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall" »Oliver Herford
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"I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School." »Frank Sinatra
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"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man." »Thomas Mann
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"Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept." »Carl Lotus Becker
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