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Er erkundigte sich nach Agnes. Sie sei weggegangen, sagte ich, und er lächelte anzüglich. "Sie gehen alle irgendwann", sagte er, "mach dir nichts draus, die Welt ist voll schöner Frauen.


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PETER DAVID Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
PETER DRUCKER Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.
PETER DANIEL Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
PETER USTINOV The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to...
PETER USTINOV The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
PETER SCOTESE There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
PETER SELLER The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intell...
PETER USTINOV Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
PETER WASTHOLM Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making fri...
PETER DRUCKER Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
PETER USTINOV I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most c...
PETER USTINOV A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
PETER MARSHALL Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s...
PETER MARSHALL We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos...
PETER DRUCKER Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER The computer is a moron.
PETER DRUCKER As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
PETER DRUCKER Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up...
PETER WASTHOLM Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
PETER LATHAM All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
PETER GILCREST First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t...
PETER KLINE The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to asp...
PETER MCWILLIAMS When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKER Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
PETER DRUCKER If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
PETER LYNCH It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETER TOWNSEND A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are tau...
PETER USTINOV Decision making is the specific executive task.
PETER DRUCKER Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
PETER WASTHOLM However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s...
PETER QUENNELL The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance...
PETER CONRAD If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
PETER LAURENCE Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do no...
PETER DRUCKER All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though ...
PETER KLINE The best way to predict the future is to create it.
PETER DRUCKER Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
PETER DRUCKER The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was ...
PETER DRUCKER God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great bless...
PETER MARSHALL Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t...
PETER TOWNSEND The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
PETER DRUCKER There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
PETER DRUCKER I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
PETER JENNINGS