Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
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Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
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We can't let censorship take over.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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Part of my growth as a producer was not just about making beats but also helping in the process of inspiring the song and making the song the center.
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If we want to end a culture rampant with harassment, we must listen to the adult women who are speaking out courageously. We must also make room for girls to speak: If we listened, we'd find that many middle schoolers are trying to tell us, 'Me too.'
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There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity.
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
