Original text (German)
When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.
If there had been no war, perhaps I would have already discovered a lot by now.
The most distant mountains, like himself, just stood there and gazed.
The world is full of important ideas, but I'll follow my own mind.
Now everything would be different; a little today, all of it tomorrow.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
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