"What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins."

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Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

Oswald Pohl

#War Quotes #Navy Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.”
“I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.”
“I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.”
“Great countries are those that produce great people.”
“Donâ€™t deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.”
“I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.”
“Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on isn't agri- so much as culture.”

Source : Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.170, Granta
“The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.”

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