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In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.


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ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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FERDINAND PIECH I would have preferred to keep both brands. But in the way (that) it developed, I am very satisfied.
FERDINAND PIECH The new Beetle cannot deny its origin and the magic of its shape, ... We believe the new Beetle is n...
FERDINAND PIECH No one knows me. No one knows my tendencies, no one knows my strengths and weaknesses. Only a few gu...
SAM WARBURG I feel sorry and for the both characters the drama for the girl, which was unknown was one very big,...
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Let justice be done, though the world perish.
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LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ye...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick, th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
FERDINAND E. MARCOS None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. ...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more ...
FERDINAND CHRISTIAN BAUR Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusive...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH