"So my father [Erwin Rommel] decided during the battle in Normandy, he knew really soon that it wasn't possible to win this battle. But my father decided pretty soon to, if necessary, to surrender on his own responsibility when the British or Americans penetrate the German positions."

-- Manfred Rommel

#Father Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.”
“The basis of a democratic state is liberty”
“Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.”
“The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.”
“Don't be so scared of dying that you stop living.”
“I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws in order to protect their fortunes. I also know they have no compassion for the masses of the people in this country who are without money and who are, many of them, without food or houses. I have always thought that only as a Democrat, reflecting Jefferson and Jackson, could justice ever be done the people because, at this moment in history, ours is the only party which is even faintly responsive to the force of ideas.”
“Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.”

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“Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.”

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