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Letter "G" » German
«A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.»
«Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.»
Author: James C. Humes
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Britain, Churchill, emotionally, German, invested, invested with, Speeches, utterances
«Carolus V, Emperor of Rome, was wont to say that the Hispanic tongue was seemly for converse with God, the French with friends, the German with enemies, the Italian with the feminine sex.»
Author: Mikhail Lomonosov
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converse, emperor, Emperor of Rome, feminine, German, Hispanic, Italian, Rome, seemly, the French, The Italian, wont, wont to
«Communism was the brain-child of German-Jewish intellectuals»
«American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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connoisseur, connoisseurs, extended, extended family, German, graduate student, graduate students, grimly, nuclear family, scholarship, technician, technicians, The Connoisseur, universities
«A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.»
Author: David Letterman
(Comedian, Host)
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demanding, flag, for example, German, Paris, rolled, threat
«. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
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English-speaking, English Law, German, operas, Sung, Swedish, text, unalterable, unquestioned
«An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.»
«An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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agile, German, grandeur, mania, unintelligent
«For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations which would envelop the globe and steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night and slaverly which would last till Christ comes again--which I hope he will n»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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envelop, enveloped, German, Globe and, inundation
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