Konrad Adenauer Quotes
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A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
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I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.
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All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.
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It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
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I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
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I love competing.
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Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.
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If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me.
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You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.
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Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
