I was initially assigned to the American Consulate in Aden, not as Principal Officer but as a supernumerary officer to handle Yemen affairs. We had no resident diplomatic mission in Yemen at the time. People from Aden went up to Yemen regularly.
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With his yemen sword for aid;
Ornament it carried none
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
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Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
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has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
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They always become a little different immediately after the... HERMANN HESSE You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. HERMANN WEYL I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we... HERMANN HESSE Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in cons... HERMANN EBBINGHAUS Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist,... HERMANN HESSE The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the... HERMANN HESSE Solitude is independence. HERMANN HESSE He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he r... HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be fille... HERMANN HESSE The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them th... HERMANN GOERING Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of o... HERMANN HESSE Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a c... HERMANN HESSE I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my ... HERMANN HESSE Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. HERMANN GOERING I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c... HERMANN HESSE Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of op... HERMANN HESSE Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object HERMANN HESSE To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a wo... HERMANN HESSE The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies w... HERMANN EBBINGHAUS One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can ... HERMANN EBBINGHAUS If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. HERMANN HESSE To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It... HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond... HERMANN HESSE The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a wo... HERMANN HESSE Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign... HERMANN HESSE For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhil... HERMANN MAIER Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign... HERMANN HESSE There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, wi... HERMANN HESSE (...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l... HERMANN HESSE Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh,... HERMANN HESSE Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. HERMANN HESSE Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. HERMANN HESSE When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them ... HERMANN HESSE Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work i... HERMANN HESSE