"Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket."

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Source : "'Why My Friends Felt They Had to Kill Hitler'" by David Smith and Walter Harris, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2004.

Franz Halder

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“Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.”
“The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.”
“One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.”
“Do not forget duty. But choose love when you can.”
“Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.”
“In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.”

Source : US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.
“In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.”

Source : Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.18, Open Road Media
“There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.”

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