"I think my father [ Erwin Rommel] would have given the same answer. The British and Americans and the French were too strong, too strong and the strategy of this battle was too clever. And the war may be - it would have taken some weeks longer before the German front was penetrated. And by the way, today we know that it was better to lose the war than to win it with Hitler."

-- Manfred Rommel

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“I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.”
“You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.”
“You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.”
“That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.”

Source : "Live From..." with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2003.
“Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.”

Source : "The Life and Poems of William Dunbar".
“The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy.”
“I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.”
“Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.”

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