"And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today in all Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power... Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share â€” That we lost."

Source : "The first astronaut: tiny, daring Hanna" by Ron Laytner in The Deseret News (pp. C1+, 12C), February 19, 1981.

Hanna Reitsch

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“Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.”
“We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals,”

Source : "Iraq: Indonesia reporters missing". www.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.
“People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.”
“I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.”
“People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.”
“John Kerry's wife Teresa Heinz is on the cover of Newsweek magazine this week and they said that if he is elected president, she will be the oldest first lady in American history. But that doesn't bother John Kerry, he said, 'To me, she looks like a million bucks'”
“The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.”

Source : "Interviewed By Harriett Lyle". Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California, 1979.
“I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.”

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