"I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany."

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Source : Last words, quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, 2002.

Wilhelm Keitel

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“You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It's the same kind of feeling. I'm just in it. It's not the words, it's not the sentences, I'm not aware of it. Then it's good.”
“A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.545, Northwestern University Press
“The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.”
“God is and he has revealed himself fully in Jesus Christ.”
“The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.”
“Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.”

Source : Bob Brown (2012). “Memo For A Saner World”, p.17, Penguin UK
“As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.”
“So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.”

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