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This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Science
Achieve
Control
Deliberate
More
Entrust
Principles
Scientific
Scientific Method
Method
According
Effects
Than
May
Deplorable
Means
The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
Friedrich St. Florian
Attitude
War
Time
Sacrifice
Else
Our
Our Time
Memorials
More
More Than Anything
Toward
Accounting
Than
Anything
Anything Else
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.
Friedrich St. Florian
Today
War
Time
World
Vision
Values
Country
Own
Sense
Live
Think
State
Say
Collapse
High
Morality
Purpose
Had
Clear
Clear Vision
Highly
Fair
Traditional
Traditional Values
Historical
Ambiguous
Very
Really
Standing
Many
World War
Fractured
World War II
I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?
Friedrich St. Florian
Life
Great
Me
My Life
Country
Great American
Other
Other Countries
Immigrant
Dream
Would
Life Story
Excel
Allowed
Feel
Countries
How
Continuation
American
American Dream
Story
Really
Who
Many
What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.
Fritz Kreisler
Me
Liberty
Police
Strict
Increased
Relaxation
Everywhere
Kind
Spite
Particularly
Mob
Impressed
Greatly
Any
Order
Vienna
Regulations
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Fritz Kreisler
Genius
World
Word
Half
About
Only
Geniuses
Fairly
Known
Got
Overused
Near
Dozen
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
Fritz Kreisler
Strange
Mind
State
Way
Eye
Prevents
Hypnotic
Firing
Almost
Observing
Line
Normal
Gets
Psychological
Which
While
Noticing
Things
Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.
Fritz Kreisler
Day
Me
Wife
Before
Duty
Later
Immediately
Colors
Wire
Had
Reached
Calling
Although
Accompanied
Years
Left
Officer
Report
Commission
Order
Happened
Switzerland
Resigned
Two
My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
Fritz Kreisler
Me
Wife
Nurse
Later
Cross
Insisting
Troop
Could
Hospitals
Allowed
Developed
Volunteered
Red
Operations
Go
Than
Front
Being
Order
Sent
Far
Rear
Farther
Large
Near
Actual
Her
Services
Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.
Fritz Kreisler
Signs
Men
Complaint
Fatigue
Out
Would
Would-Be
Slowly
Strongly
More
More And More
Dropped
Soon
Sheer
Exhaustion
However
Heard
Manifested
Themselves
Murmur
Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.
Fritz Kreisler
Battle
Somewhere
Half
Cloud
White
Saw
About
Ten
Small
Had
Simultaneously
Dull
Begun
Where
Exploded
Far
Far Away
Us
Mile
Suddenly
Round
Away
Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
Fritz Kreisler
Life
Enthusiasm
Before
Few
Only
Had
Hours
Suddenly
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
Fritz Lang
Death
Fear
Cruelty
Films
Horror
Am
Pathology
Show
Preoccupation
Fascinated
Profoundly
Violence
You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.
Fritz Lang
You
Heart
Picture
Say
Definitely
Between
Tale
Make
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Brain
Hand
Cannot
Which
Mean
Intermediary
I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.
Fritz Lang
Me
Folk
Folk Songs
Ten
Horses
Songs
Like
Opera
Concert
Bring
Women have always been my best friends.
Fritz Lang
Best
Women
Always
Been
Friends
For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.
Fritz Lang
Love
Me
Cinema
Vice
My private life has nothing to do with my films.
Fritz Lang
Life
Nothing
Films
Private
Private Life
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
Fritz Lang
Music
Me
Man
Noise
Pleasant
Eye
Am
Same
Goethe
Ear
In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.
Fritz Lang
Sex
France
Preached
America
Done
I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
Fritz Lang
You
Hated
Something
Perfectionist
Nobody
Know
Likes
Always
Hollywood
Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.
Fritz Lang
Men
Snakes
Funerals
I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.
Fritz Lang
Director
Greatest
Just
Worker
Hard
Europe
Hard Worker
Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
Georg Trakl
Year
Autumn
Stars
Head
Lower
Each
Each Year
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
Georg Trakl
Waters
Shadows
Silver
Drift
Descend
Lives
Earlier
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
Georg Trakl
Evil
Black
Signs
Stars
Air
Bitter
Tastes
Frost
Cluster
Your
Hard
Ground
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