"Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral."

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Source : "The Sanity Inspector". Book by Alan Coren, 1974.

Alan Coren

#Believe Quotes #Sweden Quotes #Way Quotes

“The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.”
“Silence is a great source of strength.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.5, Green Dragon Books
“We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.”
“She's a warm fart at Christmas.”
“I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”
“My dad was so much fun growing up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it.”
“Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal .”

Source : Claire Cook (2016). “Multiple Choice”, p.190, Marshbury Beach Books

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