"The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms of dissent and criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more "laws" or law-like measures were put on the books than ever."

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Sheila Fitzpatrick

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“I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.”
“In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.”

Source : "Removing Illegal Immigrants: The Key to Job Creation?". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. October 3, 2011.
“In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers...”

Source : "The Four Feathers" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.
“If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.”
“Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.”
“Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.”

Source : Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.8
“I'm one helluva communicator.”

Source : Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books
“The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.”

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