"Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing."

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Source : "Hitler's gold". www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.

James Buchan

#Europe Quotes #Normal Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
“Anger makes us all stupid.”
“You do have the idea of being â€˜just good friends?â€™â€ He gave her a sideways look. â€œFor so high and honorable an estate,â€ Roshaun said, â€œ â€˜justâ€™ seems a poor modifier to choose.”
“But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo”
“Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.”
“I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.”
“Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.”
“There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.”

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