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Lebenswely = ...wild being and wild mind--'mute' experience that must itself speak.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

Mauricio Salles Vasconcelos

Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Because I was a pedant. I tried to ignore you, as pedants always do try to ignore any fact they cannot fit into their pet system.

From this magnificent piece of inspired literature, we conclude that confessing our sin is a vital part of vibrant, victorious Christian living.

I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

Not until 1961 did Vice-President Lyndon Johnson deliver his memorable apologia for Diem: 'Shit, man, he's the only boy we got out there.

Never in history have lies been such vital instruments of diplomacy and policy.

American dismay in the face of those early defeats was assuaged by skilful propaganda. The United States had much less to lose in the East than did the British Empire.

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time ("Spanish Generosity")

The world according to Heidegger is like a prep school for Calvinists.

The radical elimination of magic from the world allowed no other psychological course than the practice of worldly asceticism. Since

St. Paul's "He who will not work shall not eat" holds

Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.

Calvinism, in comparison, appears to be more closely related to the hard legalism and the active enterprise of bourgeois-capitalistic entrepreneurs. Finally

Wesley's anti-Calvinistic faction within the movement with its doctrine that grace could be lost. The

The influence of the God-fearing but perfectly unemotional wisdom of the Hebrews, which is expressed in the books most read by the Puritans, the

spirit of capitalism is best understood as part of the development of rationalism as a whole