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It is clear that Germans do not want Mrs. Merkel as their chancellor.


Franz Muentefering

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FRANZ MUENTEFERING Naturally, this was not easy for us, but we see the need to do something here.
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IAN STANNARD Merkel has been very seriously weakened because she is being blamed for the election result. Germany...
DIETMAR HERZ Do. Then talk. In that order.
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GERD LANGGUTH Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do.
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LAWRENCE WECHSLER I am shocked and dismayed by the numerous leaks regarding Mrs. Currie's grand jury testimony, ... I ...
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GERHARD SCHR Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
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JAIME PRESSLY I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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GINA GREENLEE He's not a child!" said Sirius impatiently.

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FRANZ KAFKA In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
FRANZ KAFKA You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog...
FRANZ KAFKA I do not hope for victory
FRANZ KAFKA The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as ma...
FRANZ KAFKA From the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you
FRANZ KAFKA Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward
FRANZ KAFKA All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog
FRANZ KAFKA We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have no...
FRANZ KAFKA Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKA It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
FRANZ LISZT Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the i...
FRANZ BOAS Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in mo...
FRANZ LISZT If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!
FRANZ KAFKA The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule,...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n...
FRANZ KAFKA Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful m...
FRANZ MARC