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He wants to be his own Chief of Staff. God help our country!

— Alfred von Waldersee

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Never before has a ruler been so beloved by his own people, so highly esteemed by the whole world.

Bismarck is the king's last mistress because only such a creature could have such power over an old man.

It is really a good thing that the English should be unmasked at last and that the world should see what miserable hypocrites they are.

The unequal distribution of wealth with all its consequences must lead in the end to a catastrophe.

What he is most lacking in are fixed aims and the faculty of persisting in the line he has taken up.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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