We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.
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When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
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Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
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Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
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The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
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Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
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