Martin Luther Quotes

Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.

Martin Luther

• Country
• Fear
• France
• Day Of Judgment
• Wind-pipe

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• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

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• Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.

  

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• I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

  

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• In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.

  

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• Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

  

  Yuri Milner
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• I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.

  

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• The only weights I lift are my dogs.

  

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• It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

  

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• How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

  

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• There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

  

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  • World
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• What was critical for the maintenance of pegged exchange rates, I argue in this book, was protection for governments from pressure to trade exchange rate stability for other goals.

  

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• Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.

  

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• Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!

  

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• The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.

  

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• The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.

  

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• I tried to minimize exposure to technology before two. After that, I've taught the kids to use devices in moderation. It's important for them to learn how to control their behaviour themselves. Simply restricting access makes them want it more.

  

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• You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

  

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• It bodes well for the future that young people are thinking so intently about political issues.

  

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• Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Country
  • Fear
  • France