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The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Source: A Woman of No Importance Act 3 -
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
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The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
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The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.
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The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.
Source: My Life as a Writer (2014) -
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
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The human race has an effective weapon and that is laughter.
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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
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The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.
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