#ii

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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.


Joseph Ratzinger


#brothers #cardinals #dear #elected #great

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.


A. J. P. Taylor


#how #iii #learned #like #make

Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism.


Sally Bedell Smith


#margaret-thatcher #monarchy #queen-elizabeth-ii #the-queen #leadership

To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.


Diet Eman


#dutch #holocaust #jesus-christ #righteous-gentile #wwii

They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews.


Diet Eman


#dutch #holocaust #jesus-christ #righteous-gentile #wwii

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.


Diet Eman


#dutch #holocaust #jesus-christ #righteous-gentile #wwii

Yesterday the paper had a "short" summary of the places where Jews are not allowed! I can better mention where they are still aloud: "in their houses and in the streets!" God, punish those who are persecuting the people you chose and to whom Jesus also belonged. -From the diary of Diet Eman


Diet Eman


#god #holocaust #jesus-christ #righteous-gentile #wwii

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.


Gene Tierney


#among #away #europe #happened #ii

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.


Oscar Wilde


#age #women #age

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.


John Hersey


#books #death #hiroshima #japan #ways-to-die