Forced Labour in Hagen 1939-1945 - Working for armament in World War II An overview on camps, prisons and armaments works in Hagen.
History of Dorsten - The History of Dorsten till Word War II. Dorsten is an ancient town of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
History of North Rhine-Westphalia - The NRW history machine points out facts, events, pictures and sounds in the field of politics, culture, economics and the media from 1946 to the present. A memory lane including downloads and user experiences.
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." History "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) History
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) History "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins History
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem History blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James History
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) History If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden History
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James History "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke History
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) History Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch History
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins History The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) History
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) History Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman History
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story History It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) History
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin History This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge History
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch History "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 History
