"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."

-- Karl Kraus

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“I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.”

Source : "Q&A: Heikki Kovalainen, Lotus F1". Interview with Matt Salisbury, www.crash.net. December 14, 2009.
“I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.”
“It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.”
“When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.”

Source : "Katherine Boo: Slum dweller" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 1012.
“So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.”
“Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.”
“In no other game but love can you make all the right moves and still lose.”
“Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly”

Source : "Roman Vishniac (ICP library of photographers)" by Roman Vishniac, p. 42, 1974.

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