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In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.


Karl Philipp Moritz

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KARL MALONE I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We re...
KARL MALONE I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation'...
KARL MALONE To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I did...
KARL MALONE All records are not made to be broken.
KARL MALONE I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
KARL MALONE When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That ...
KARL MALONE You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to st...
KARL MALONE You don't try to do more than you should.
KARL MALONE I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, b...
KARL MALONE You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know i...
KARL MALONE Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
KARL MALONE I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do ...
KARL MALONE I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have...
KARL MALONE Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the l...
KARL MALONE I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call ...
KARL MALONE You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't f...
KARL MALONE Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, i...
KARL MALONE You work for whatever you get in life.
KARL MALONE Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another ...
KARL MALONE For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play w...
KARL MALONE They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tel...
KARL MALONE I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
KARL MALONE I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
KARL MALONE Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
KARL MALONE Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it....
KARL MALONE My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
KARL MALDEN I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every...
KARL MALDEN Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the...
KARL LIEBKNECHT To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another...
KARL LIEBKNECHT This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of whic...
KARL LIEBKNECHT Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so...
KARL LIEBKNECHT International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
KARL LIEBKNECHT In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
KARL LIEBKNECHT Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
KARL LIEBKNECHT The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole wor...
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