"A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany."

-- Stefan Heym

#Next Day Quotes #West Germany Quotes #East Quotes

“I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.”
“I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth”
“Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.”
“When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.”
“So many things were going great in my life and then all of the sudden my personal life just went down at crazy speeds. I had a negative breakdown and it changed my life forever, but I'm glad that it did, because if I had never gone into the treatment ... I don't know if, one, I'd even be sitting here today. Two, if I'd be alive today.”
“Every something is an echo of nothing”
“I want to be the guy out there on the edge.”
“Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.”

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