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It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, cover, cover. Make sure you're never exposed.
I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over.
Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.
It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.
Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty
Ich hatte nur noch wenig Zeit. Die wollte ich nicht mit Gott vertrödeln.
Da man sterben muss, ist es ganz unwesentlich, wann und wie - das ist klar.
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
Haben Sie denn keine Hoffnung, und leben Sie mit dem Gedanken, dass Sie ganz und gar sterben? Ich antwortete: "Ja."
After awhile you could get used to anything.
Ein Mensch, der nur einen einzigen Tag erlebt hat, könnte mühelos hundert Jahre in einem Gefängnis leben. Er hätte genug Erinnerungen, um sich nicht zu langweilen.
Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
Der beste Weg, um einen Gefangenen an der Flucht zu hindern, besteht darin, sicherzustellen, dass er nie weiß, dass er im Gefängnis ist.
A fool is always pleased with what he says, and, besides, he always says more than he needs to.
Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
Das Geheimnis der menschlichen Existenz liegt nicht darin, am Leben zu bleiben, sondern etwas zu finden, wofür es sich zu leben lohnt.
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
Leiden und Schmerz sind immer die Voraussetzung umfassender Erkenntnis und eines tiefen Herzens. Mir scheint, wahrhaft große Menschen müssen auf Erden eine große Trauer empfinden.
Was ist die Hölle? Sie ist der Schmerz darüber, dass man nicht mehr lieben kann.
Belügen Sie sich vor allem nicht selbst. Ein Mensch, der sich selbst belügt und seiner eigenen Lüge zuhört, kommt an einen Punkt, an dem er weder in sich selbst noch in seiner Umgebung eine Wahrheit erkennen kann, und verfällt so in Respektlosigkeit gegenüber sich selbst und anderen. Da er niemanden respektiert, hört er auf zu lieben.
Feige ist, wer sich fürchtet und davonläuft, wer sich aber fürchtet und nicht davonläuft, der ist noch nicht feige.
Der Unterschied besteht nur darin, dass sie früher weniger bekannt wurden, während man jetzt angefangen hat, über jede neue Mordtat zu reden und sogar zu schreiben, und deshalb hat es den Anschein, diese Verbrechen seien jetzt erst aufgetaucht.
Man spricht von der "tierischen" Grausamkeit des Menschen. Aber das ist sehr ungerecht und für die Tiere wirklich beleidigend: Ein Tier kann niemals so grausam sein wie der Mensch, so ausgeklügelt, so kunstvoll grausam.
Es gibt kein Glück im Wohlstand, durch Leiden wird Glück erkauft.
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Wen man am meisten liebt, den kränkt man am ehesten.
Das Lachen verlangt Arglosigkeit, die meisten Menschen lachen aber am häufigsten boshaft.
So ist es auf Erden: Jede Seele wird geprüft und wird auch getröstet.
Es gibt nichts Schwereres auf der Welt als offener Freimut und nichts Leichteres als Schmeichelei.
Mit der Logik allein ist die menschliche Natur nicht zu besiegen. Die Logik sieht drei Möglichkeiten, dabei gibt es ihrer eine Million!
Aus hundert Kaninchen wird niemals ein Pferd und aus hundert Verdachtsgründen niemals ein Beweis.
Jeder sorgt für sich, und am lustigsten lebt derjenige, der sich selbst am besten zu betrügen versteht.
Philosophie ist ein Abfallprodukt der Langeweile.
Richard David Precht in Überlebt der Stärkere? Irrglaube Sozialdarwinismus
Lernen und Genießen sind das Geheimnis eines erfüllten Lebens. Lernen ohne Genießen verhärmt, Genießen ohne Lernen verblödet.
Richard David Precht in Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele?
Sie kaufen Dinge, die sie nicht brauchen, um Leute zu beeindrucken, die sie nicht mögen, mit Geld, das sie nicht haben.
Richard David Precht in Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele?
Die glücklichsten Menschen der Welt haben keine geteerten Straßen.
Richard David Precht in Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele?
Maybe a thing has to be smart enough to lose its mind.
Once she told me I looked like the sun to her, because of my hair. I asked her if I shined like the sun, and she told me, "No, Daddy, you shine more like the moon, when it's dark outside."
Only a box of birds, Malorie thinks. Yet, it does feel like progress.
The moment between deciding to open your eyes and then actually doing it is as scary a thing as there is in the new world.
It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.
How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?
You can smell it, too. Death. Dying. Decay. The sky is falling, the sky is dying, the sky is dead.
"Is he friendly?" Tom says quietly. "I've discovered," Jules says, "that a dog will become fast friends with the people who feed him."
Man is the creature he fears.
Ich fühlte jeden einzelnen Ton mit. Es war, als hätte er seine Seele in Töne umgeformt, als würden sich die Musiker mit Tönen untereinander verständigen und zusammen etwas schaffen, was einer allein nicht bewerkstelligen kann. Ich dachte wieder daran, wie toll es sein muss, in einer Band zu spielen.
Flake in Der Tastenficker: An was ich mich so erinnern kann
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