"I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it."

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Source : "Bernhard Schlink: being German is a huge burden". Interview with Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

Bernhard Schlink

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“Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1923
“I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.”
“We are the living planet!”
“You canâ€™t step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.”
“A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.”
“So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.”
“We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone cures. ... And what [true] nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
“Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.”

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