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Bernhard Schlink has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get…
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As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can…
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When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Philosophy has forgotten about children
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The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.
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There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or…
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The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier…
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There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and…
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What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is…
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Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one.…
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People exiled in past and disowning present may build wealth but not future in life
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I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree…
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I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning…
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Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a…
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And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all…
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I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous…
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I have no intention of disowning my record as a member of the McGuinty government.
— Kathleen Wynne
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People exiled in past and disowning present may build wealth but not future.~ Anuj Somany
— Anuj Somany
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