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Greg said:
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I’m reading this slowly, stretching it out until the end of the year.Here’s a crack at translating the selected quotes below so far for those who don’t speak German:
p. 57
In the German Republic, it’s a hindrance to one’s career to be a republican.
p. 1 ...more "
progress:
(page 366 of 820)
"Wunder sind eine Reklame. Wunder beweisen nichts für die Richtigkeit eines ethischen Systems." — Nov 23, 2025 11:59AM
"Wunder sind eine Reklame. Wunder beweisen nichts für die Richtigkeit eines ethischen Systems." — Nov 23, 2025 11:59AM
“Youth is very
Cruel to an old face,
He said in a hushed voice.
It looks into its lines for wisdom
So touchingly
But there is nothing there to find.”
― Gilgamesh
Cruel to an old face,
He said in a hushed voice.
It looks into its lines for wisdom
So touchingly
But there is nothing there to find.”
― Gilgamesh
“For success in the life imposed on him he needed, as afterwards appeared, the facile use of only four tools: Mathematics, French, German, and Spanish. With these, he could master in a very short time any special branch of inquiry, and feel at home in any society.”
― The Education of Henry Adams
― The Education of Henry Adams
“Do you think if ignorance was catching that I’d be a carrier?”
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“A well-written book in which one can find new ideas, and a good pen to communicate one’s own ideas to others, for me have always been and are to-day the most valuable and intimate products of culture.”
― My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography
― My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography
“The more advanced the country, the more its citizens insist on a pure water supply, on laws against careless methods of preparing and handling food, and against the making and advertising of harmful drugs. Powerful vested interests with profits at stake compel the public authorities to fight a sustained battle against the assumption that the pursuit of individual profit is the best way to serve the general good.”
― In Place of Fear
― In Place of Fear
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