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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Politics ruins the character.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or rig...
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of...
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and g...
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Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
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There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
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CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ...
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ...
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best.
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No, a fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others.
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When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention ...
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We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak gr...
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half...
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When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intenti...
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right b...
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron...
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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.
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The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation ...
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but b...
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle f...
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intentio...
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think har...
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for n...
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle o...
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A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, m...
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a hal...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, mod...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of...
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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The nation that has the schools has the future
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By the 1990s, advertising with celebrities had really taken off,
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An honest broker.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best
OTTO VON BISMARCK

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Blood and iron.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans
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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being
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There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
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The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
OTTO VON BISMARCK

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intenti...
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Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they q...
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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice). - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

The Prussian Sovereigns are in possession of a crown not be the grace of the people, but by God's g...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and i...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the pr...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. [Ger., Wir Deutschen furchten Gott, sonst aber...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wi...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK

The king reigns but does not govern. [Ger., Der Konig herrscht aber regiert nicht.]
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not ...
OTTO VON BISMARK Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARK People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
OTTO VON BISMARK

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not...
OTTO DIX To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
OTTO LILIENTHAL

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
OTTO WEININGER

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why w...
OTTO WEININGER

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women o...
OTTO WEININGER

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every real...
OTTO WEININGER

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
OTTO WEININGER

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
OTTO WEININGER May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this ...
OTTO WALLACH As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced b...
OTTO WALLACH Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of ...
OTTO WALLACH In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i...
OTTO WALLACH In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted am...
OTTO WALLACH One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least s...
OTTO WALLACH As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it ap...
OTTO WALLACH As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organ...
OTTO WALLACH It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on ...
OTTO WALLACH This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be ...
OTTO SCHILY Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so ...
OTTO SCHILY It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from afflu...
OTTO SCHILY Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, t...
OTTO SCHILY And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is ...
OTTO SCHILY The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see ...
OTTO SCHILY It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people ...
OTTO SCHILY After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of brin...
OTTO SCHILY We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.
OTTO SCHILY There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see wh...
OTTO SCHILY Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
OTTO SCHILY We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use mili...
OTTO SCHILY On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus sy...
OTTO SCHILY The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the p...
OTTO SCHILY On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
OTTO SCHILY Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanista...
OTTO SCHILY Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that doe...
OTTO SCHILY The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
OTTO SCHILY The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community,...
OTTO SCHILY The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmak...
OTTO SCHILY Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is re...
OTTO SCHILY This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role ...
OTTO SCHILY Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
OTTO RANK The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. ...
OTTO RANK Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
OTTO RANK Art is life's dream interpretation.
OTTO RANK The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psy...
OTTO RANK I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to...
OTTO PREMINGER I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no o...
OTTO PREMINGER I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot ...
OTTO PREMINGER When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doc...
OTTO PREMINGER I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
OTTO PREMINGER Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of the...
OTTO PREMINGER What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
OTTO PREMINGER I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because...
OTTO PREMINGER When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, the...
OTTO PREMINGER Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
OTTO PREMINGER Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
OTTO PENZLER To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
OTTO PENZLER It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of whic...
OTTO PENZLER One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside th...
OTTO PENZLER Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians...
OTTO PENZLER A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't...
OTTO PENZLER Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, po...
OTTO PENZLER I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to h...
OTTO PENZLER I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
OTTO PENZLER All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and ...
OTTO PENZLER A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, ...
OTTO PENZLER

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onw...
OTTO HAHN

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details ...
OTTO HAHN

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.
OTTO HAHN I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too ...
OTTO FRANK We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but ...
OTTO FRANK

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years after...
OTTO DIX

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
OTTO DIX

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reaso...
OTTO DIX

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is ...
OTTO DIX

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I'...
OTTO DIX

I will either be famous or infamous.
OTTO DIX

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary...
OTTO DIX

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beaut...
OTTO DIX The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easi...
OTTO BAUER Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But hi...
RUDOLF OTTO

The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize ...
WHITNEY OTTO Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
OTTO SCHUWDRMER

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
OTTO WEININGER Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
OTTO SCHUWDRMER

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to pres...
WHITNEY OTTO Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surpr...
MIRANDA OTTO For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had...
OTTO FRANK You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.
JIM OTTO When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
JOHN OTTO Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the ...
RUDOLF OTTO

The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly ...
WHITNEY OTTO

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying t...
OTTO HAHN

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him...
OTTO DIX I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.
JIM OTTO We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a w...
OTTO SCHILY We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing...
FREI OTTO

No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exac...
WHITNEY OTTO What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
OTTO RANK

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.
WHITNEY OTTO I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like t...
FREI OTTO I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never...
MIRANDA OTTO We've got many different sides of music to us.
JOHN OTTO When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.
JIM OTTO But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.
JOHN OTTO I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thi...
JOHN OTTO A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
OTTO BAUER

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy...
OTTO WEININGER It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get...
MIRANDA OTTO The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and l...
MIRANDA OTTO We are like sailors who must rebuild the ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-doc...
OTTO NEURATH It was a really fortuitous time to come to Dartmouth.
COURTNEY OTTO The doctors were astounded to know she wasn't a smoker and said second-hand smoke was the cause of h...
COURTNEY OTTO I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work ...
MIRANDA OTTO Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
MIRANDA OTTO Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
OTTO PREMINGER That a terrorist linked to the 9/11 attacks has now been convicted is proof that Germany is fighting...
OTTO SCHILY

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they l...
WHITNEY OTTO Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.
FREI OTTO I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential.
MIRANDA OTTO

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

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