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People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.


Dita Von Teese

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MAX VON SYDOW Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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MAX VON SYDOW Politics is the art of the next best.
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OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics ruins the character.
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WERNER VON BRAUN Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
ROGER VON OECH The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
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WERNER VON BRAUN To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to be wrong and to dream.
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
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OTTO VON BISMARCK Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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LUDWIG VON MISES He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
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Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend i...
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CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
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CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To secure peace is to prepare for war.
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CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Before you can do something you must first be something.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
OTTO VON BISMARCK CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
LUDWIG VON MISES The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
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