"The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want."

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Source : "Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader" by Ronald Smelser, (p. 24), 1988.

Robert Ley

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“I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.”
“I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun.”
“People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.”
“Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.”
“There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.”

Source : KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 05, 2003.
“Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.”
“I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!”
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”

Source : Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.120, Library of Alexandria

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