"In recent years, the largest parties have shied away from making clear statements about where they stand. That was a huge mistake. I very much welcomed the fact that German President Joachim Gauck spoke clearly at the Munich Security Conference and demanded that Germany become more engaged internationally."

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Heinrich August Winkler

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“The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.”
“17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.”

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“The hardest things in life are done the least but provide the most.”
“The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.”
“There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.”
“Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A bakerâ€™s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds werenâ€™t in our favor. â€œMaybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar,â€ I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. â€œThatâ€™s a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake.”
“I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.”
“I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being.”

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