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Die niedersächsische CDU-Landtagsfraktion hat ihren alten Vorstand neu gewählt. Noch immer befindet sich nur eine Frau unter den acht Mitgliedern.www.taz.de
Der Erste Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der CDU/CSU-Fraktion über ungleichgewichtige Repräsentanz – und das Gebaren der AfD im Bundestag.taz.de
Do not preach the straight and narrow way while going joyously upon the wide one. Preach the wide one, or do not preach at all; but do not fool yourself by saying you would like to help usher in a free society, but you cannot sacrifice an armchair for it.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American writer, lecturer
The world oftener rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammist, memoirist, noble
The essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others.The Dalai Lama (b. 1935) Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader [The 14th Dalai Lama; a/k/a Lhama Thondup / Lhama Dhondrub; b. Tenzin Gyatso]
Man helps himself by larger generalizations. The lesson of life is practically to generalize; to believe what the years and the centuries say, against the hours; to resist the usurpation of particulars; to penetrate to their catholic sense. Things seem to say one thing, and say the reverse. The appearance is immoral; the result is moral.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) German-American psychologist, writer
To have the choice between proprietary software packages, is being able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.
-- Richard Stallman
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Ralph Ring has spent his life studying nature to understand science."There's only one law--You either know or you don't know."BUMBLE BEES, LEVITATION AND THE Ewww.sciencegodandyou.com
As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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An author is like a horse pulling a coal-cart down an icy hill; he ought to stop, but when he reflects that it would probably kill him to try, he goes right on, neighing and rolling his eyes.Robertson Davies (1913-1995) Canadian author, editor, publisher
If conversion to Christianity makes no improvements in a man’s outward actions — if he continues to be just as snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before — then I think we must suspect that his “conversion” was largely imaginary; and after one’s original conversion, every time one thinks one has made an advance, that is the test to apply. Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in “religion” mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer and scholar [Clive Staples Lewis]
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.Henry Winkler (b. 1945) American actor, director, producer, author
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.Frances "Fanny" Wright (1795-1852) Scottish-American writer, lecturer, social reformer
I was thinking I’d want my daughters to know how much I love them, but I’d also want them to know that being a strong man includes being kind. That there’s nothing weak about kindness and compassion. There’s nothing weak about looking out for others. There’s nothing weak about being honorable. You’re not a sucker to have integrity, and to treat others with respect.Barack Obama (b. 1961) American politician, US President (2009-2017)
There are few of us who are not protected from the keenest pain by our inability to see what it is that we have done, what we are suffering, and what we truly are. Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearances only.Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar
O’Brien knew everything. A thousand times better than Winston, he knew what the world was really like, in what degradation the mass of human beings lived and by what lies and barbarities the Party kept them there. He had understood it all, weighed it all, and it made no difference: all was justified by the ultimate purpose. What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Apologies rebuild the bridge that gets severed when we hurt someone else, either intentionally or by accident. Apologies don’t require us to grovel or wallow in guilt. We simply acknowledge that our actions were insensitive, unkind, or harmful and say we are sorry.Charlotte Kasl (contemp.) American psychologist and author
Things seem to tend downward, to justify despondency, to promote rogues, to defeat the just; and by knaves as well as by martyrs the just cause is carried forward. Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
We love to have agents provocateurs in the party, because they always propose the most revolutionary motions.
-- Louise Michel
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Aktuell werden fast alle bekannten Inhalte des neuen Streamingdienstes in den USA produziert. Bis 2020 müssten 30 Prozent aus der EU stammen – eigentlich.www.heise.de
#Conservative delusion in 8 words:"...in the old days when we were smart..."
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Die drei größten EU-Staaten wollen endlich eine Lösung für die Verteilung von Migranten erreichen und treffen sich auf Malta. Werden andere EU-Staaten mitziehen? Bernd Riegert berichtet.www.dw.com
