Edmund de Waal Quotes
Austrian Republic established after the war gave an amnesty to 90 per cent of members of the Nazi Party in 1948, and to the SS and Gestapo by 1957.
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When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
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There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
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Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
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As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
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Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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Ah! never shall the land forget.
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Next time I go perch fishing I'll bring a net.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
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It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
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There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.
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I won't start quite at the beginning... but the emigration of my parents from Nazi Germany and their new life in the U.S.A. A one sentence summary of these events is that after some years of trouble and considerable hard work, my parents established a satisfactory if not comfortable life for themselves and their two children.
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Austrian Republic established after the war gave an amnesty to 90 per cent of members of the Nazi Party in 1948, and to the SS and Gestapo by 1957.
