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| faa7092 | The middle classes, grown prosperous by the belated but staggering development of the industrial revolution and dazzled by the success of Bismarck's policy of force and war, had traded for material gain any aspirations for political freedom they may have had. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 0f2a16d | On the streets today gangs of Jews, with jeering storm troopers standing over them and taunting crowds around them, on their hands and knees scrubbing the Schuschnigg signs off the sidewalks. Many Jews killing themselves. All sorts of reports of Nazi sadism, and from the Austrians it surprises me. Jewish men and women made to clean latrines. Hundreds of them just picked at random off the streets to clean the toilets of the Nazi boys. The lu.. | William L. Shirer | ||
| d2254cf | In Berlin, Stauffenberg and his confederates had at last perfected their plans. They were lumped under the code name "Valkyrie"--an appropriate term, since the Valkyrie were the maidens in Norse-German mythology, beautiful but terrifying, who were supposed to have hovered over the ancient battlefields choosing those who would be slain. In this case, Adolf Hitler was to be slain. Ironically enough, Admiral Canaris, before his fall, had sold .. | William L. Shirer | ||
| f67668f | After December 1, horses, cows, and pigs not residing on regular farms are to get food cards too. | William L. Shirer | ||
| d004001 | Many of the books tossed into the flames in Berlin that night by the joyous students under the approving eye of Dr. Goebbels had been written by authors of world reputation. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 943d8c5 | Hitler delivered petulant speeches that fall warning the outside world and particularly the British to mind their own business and to quit concerning themselves "with the fate of Germans within the frontiers of the Reich." | William L. Shirer | ||
| 0b9852e | Deprived of his trade unions, collective bargaining and the right to strike, the German worker in the Third Reich became an industrial serf, bound to his master, the employer, much as medieval peasants had been bound to the lord of the manor. The so-called Labor Front, which in theory replaced the old trade unions, did not represent the worker. | William L. Shirer | ||
| c446a0a | The skins of concentration camp prisoners, especially executed for this ghoulish purpose, had merely decorative value. They made, it was found, excellent lamp shades, several of which were expressly fitted up for Frau Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of Buchenwald and nicknamed by the inmates the "Bitch of Buchenwald."*" | William L. Shirer | ||
| 3731aaa | After midnight and no air-raid, | William L. Shirer | ||
| 78d7bfb | Somehow I feel that, despite our work as reporters, there is little understanding of the Third Reich, what it is, what it is up to, where it is going, either at home or elsewhere abroad. It is a complex picture and it may be that we have given only a few strong, uncoordinated strokes of the brush, leaving the canvas as confusing and meaningless as an early Picasso. Certainly the British and the French do not understand Hitler's Germany. Per.. | William L. Shirer | ||
| cd7fb3e | Then yesterday Hitler dispatched an ultimatum: Either carry out the terms of the Berchtesgaden "agreement," or the Reichswehr marches. A little after midnight this morning Schuschnigg and Miklas surrendered. The new Cabinet was announced, Seyss-Inquart is in the key post of Minister of the Interior, and there is an amnesty for all Nazis. Douglas Reed when I saw him today so indignant he could hardly talk. He's given the London Times the com.. | William L. Shirer | ||
| a22d018 | I understood the infamous spiritual terror which this movement exerts, particularly on the bourgeoisie, which is neither morally nor mentally equal to such attacks; at a given sign it unleashes a veritable barrage of lies and slanders against whatever adversary seems most dangerous, until the nerves of the attacked persons break down ... This is a tactic based on precise calculation of all human weaknesses, and its result will lead to succe.. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 4239602 | They and the Army leaders, Ludendorff and Hindenburg, had pushed political power into the hands of the reluctant Social Democrats. In doing so they managed also to place on the shoulders of these democratic working-class leaders apparent responsibility for signing the surrender and ultimately the peace treaty, thus laying on them the blame for Germany's defeat and for whatever suffering a lost war and a dictated peace might bring upon the G.. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 62aa0d8 | Rommel hesitated and finally made his decision. "I believe," he said to Stroelin, "it is my duty to come to the rescue of Germany." At this meeting and at all subsequent ones which Rommel had with the plotters, he opposed assassinating Hitler--not on moral but on practical grounds. To kill the dictator, he argued, would be to make a martyr of him. He insisted that Hitler be arrested by the Army and haled before a German court for crimes aga.. | William L. Shirer | ||
| bfe15a4 | All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them. from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education | might-makes-right nazi-germany | William L. Shirer | |
| f682962 | God is great and God is good, And we thank Him for this food. By His hand may we be led, Give us Lord or daily bread. | Betty MacDonald | ||
| cd79ed7 | Nancy grabbed Plum's hand and together they ran around the last curve and then they were leaning against the old stone wall that marked Lookout Hill. Far, far down below them, a river was trying to wriggle its way out of a steep canyon. Over to the right, thick green hills crowded close to each other to share one filmy white cloud. To the left, as far as they could see the land flowed into valleys that shaded from a pale watery green, throu.. | green | Betty MacDonald | |
| 48fb4cb | Far off down the road, through the lazily drifting snowflakes, they could hear the merry sound of sleigh bells. Their gay little tinkling flying ahead of the sleigh and lighting up the night with sparks. | christmas sleigh snowflakes | Betty MacDonald | |
| 101a9e6 | I have no patience with women who complain because their mothers or their husband's mothers have to live with them. To my prejudice eye, a child's life without a grandparent en residence would be a barren thing. | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 6374ea0 | I never feel that the things I tell Mrs. Monday are lies. I think that lies are only when you want not to tell the truth. With Mrs. Monday I want to tell the truth but life is easier if I don't. | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 2559462 | Vatican Palace...because in Venturi's words, 'Less is | Emily Giffin | ||
| 3ae5977 | After all, there is nothing like a mother telling you that you're making a bad decision to convince you that what you are doing is the absolute best course of action. | Emily Giffin | ||
| bf04c38 | I don't love him, period. I didn't love him before this. I cared about him. And I wanted to love him. Maybe I could have grown to love him. But those feelings just weren't there. I liked the idea of him. It was exciting. He was exciting. Too exciting. | Emily Giffin | ||
| a3d44e9 | But there is one constant, one thing you can always count on: that not only does love come first, but in the end, it is the only thing that remains. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 9dbf53f | That is one of the problems with getting older. There is a distinct lag time between how you see others and how you view yourself. I still thought of myself as looking twenty-four. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 626b764 | an ideal relationship, the balance of power is equal. But if someone has to have more power, that someone needs to be the woman. Her reasoning is that when most men wield the power, they abuse it and succumb to their innately self-serving, self-indulgent instincts. Women who have power, on the other hand, tend to rule in the interest of the family unit rather than their own self-interest. Which is why matriarchal societies are peaceful, har.. | Emily Giffin | ||
| a68cbc8 | It occurs to me that as different as we are in our behavior and decisions, our most basic, knee-jerk emotional reactions to really big things are often remarkably similar. And it is in these moments that I am most grateful for my sister. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 77d0a5f | Because sometimes I have the feeling that everyone thinks that everyone else is living a fairy tale. Especially in the South. People fake things so much. Put on a happy face and show off your perfect life. | Emily Giffin | ||
| a5e3620 | I flash a fake smile of my own, refraining from telling her what I'm really thinking: that it's an unwise karmic move to go around feeling superior to other mothers. Because before she knows it, her little angel could become a tattooed teenager hiding joints in her designer handbag and doling out blow jobs in the backseat of her BMW. | parents-and-children smugness | Emily Giffin | |
| 2ae778b | I have a fleeting fantasy of telling her that procreation isn't a contest, any more than SAT scores and making the cheerleading squad and getting into a good college and all the other things, both big and small, that she turned into a contest when Janie and I were young, going all the way back to whose baby teeth came in first, according to my mother. | procreation | Emily Giffin | |
| bf74b31 | Minigolf," she said with stone seriousness, "is a metaphor for life." I smiled and said, "Oh, really?" "Yes. I mean, think about it....Do you take it seriously? Too seriously? Do you enjoy it? Do you keep careful score? Do you get upset when you lose? Do you cheat? And if you do cheat, how do you react when you're busted? Are you sheepish? Sorry? Do you do it again?" | Emily Giffin | ||
| 859d16e | Minigolf," she said with stone seriousness, "is a metaphor for life." | lessons life metaphor | Emily Giffin All We Ever Wanted | |
| 7ef851f | Time heals all wounds, particularly if you pack a bunch of stuff into that time. | Emily Giffin | ||
| b27a77d | o oposto do amor nao e o odio, e a indiferenca. (p. 306)" (GIFFIN, 2004.)" | Emily Giffin | ||
| 4b72d20 | Whenever I hear of someone else's tragedy, I do not dwell on the accident or diagnosis, or even the initial shock waves or aftermath of grief. Instead, I find myself reconstructing those final ordinary moments. Moments that make up our lives. Moments that were blissfully taken for granted--and that likely would have been forgotten altogether but for what followed. The snapshots. | heart-of-the-matter tragedy | Emily Giffin | |
| 20f1c12 | There is emotion, and then there is what you do about it. | Emily Giffin | ||
| bf04eff | I think I have always had the misguided sense that worry and fear serve as an insurance policy of sorts. On a subconscious level, I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. Well, I am here to say that it doesn't work like that. The very thing you fear the most can still happen anyway. And when it does, you feel that much more cheated for having feared it in the first place. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 04d5347 | I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 4ffc92b | And I love the beret. Just glad that it wasn't raspberry." "Or from a secondhand store," he deadpanned. "Although I would love to see you in it. And if it was warm..." | Emily Giffin | ||
| 35cc882 | It is not what I had planned - this day, this moment, these unlikely relationships, both old and new. Yet I feel overcome with peace and certainty that, for once, I am exactly where I should be. | Emily Giffin | ||
| c96dac2 | Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael. | relationship relationships | Emily Giffin | |
| 1c80b7e | his unwavering confidence - but now, it feels like a brand of indifference | indifference | Emily Giffin | |
| 35bdada | It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they're missed in your life. In the world. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 48b6eff | but I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it. | Emily Giffin |