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"At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?"

"The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest."

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."

"I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe."

"We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution."

"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."

"The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary."

"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."

"I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things."

"Abroad? Oh no. I went to England in '91, and you stood in the garden at Fontenay and berated me. He shook his head. "This is my nation. Here I stay. A man can't carry his country on the soles of his shoes."
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"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."

"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."
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