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In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Heinrich Heine
Fight
Our
Ideas
Times
Newspapers
Fortress
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
Heinrich Heine
Great
Nature
Poet
Like
Most
Knows
Greatest
Limited
How
Effects
Produce
Means
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
Heinrich Heine
Music
Me
Battle
Soldiers
Wedding
Reminds
Always
Go
March
Played
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
Heinrich Heine
Tears
Whatever
Shed
Always
End
Blows
May
Nose
In The End
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Heinrich Heine
Saying
Nothing
Eloquence
Consists
True
Necessary
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine
Values
Criticism
Only
He
Praise
Who
Profits
God will forgive me; that's his business.
Heinrich Heine
God
Me
Business
Will
His
Forgive
Forgive Me
Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
Heinrich Heine
Me
Am
Ask
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine
Thought
Men
Action
Only
Unconscious
Instruments
After
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Heinrich Heine
Music
Me
Battle
Before
Soldiers
Wedding
Weddings
Reminds
Always
Go
Played
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Heinrich Heine
Believe
Difficult
Extremely
Divinity
He
Himself
Another
How
Converted
Bring
Jew
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
Heinrich Mann
Happiness
King
First
Bourbon
Ambassador
Human
Human Happiness
Reason
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
Heinrich Mann
Better
Way
Construct
Better Way
Contains
Ideas
Making
Than
Which
Novel
Elevating
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
Heinrich Schliemann
Past
Nothing
Digging
Our
Spend
Our Lives
Relic
Could
Than
Lives
Imagine
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
Heinrich Schliemann
Work
Disagree
Research
Aim
Sole
Able
Some
Only
Eminent
Fact
Occupied
Am
Foreign
Historians
Historical
Historical Fact
Establish
Which
You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.
Heinz Guderian
You
Somebody
Fingers
Spread
Fist
Hit
Your
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
Heinz Guderian
Future
Battle
Will
Troops
Armored
Role
Whenever
Decisive
Wars
Fought
Play
It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.
Heinz Guderian
Destroy
Decisive
Warsaw
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
Helmut Jahn
Creativity
Something
Inventing
More
Something New
New
Than
Elimination
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
Helmut Jahn
Architecture
Building
Every
Alike
Prototype
Two
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
Helmut Jahn
Good
Engineer
Consequences
Systems
Components
About
Proposes
He
Himself
Stylistic
Reverse
Ask
Thinks
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
Helmut Jahn
People
Care
Big
Air
About
Daylight
Footprints
Like
Buildings
Fresh
Fresh Air
dont Care
American
Chinese
I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.
Helmut Jahn
Building
Minor
Never
Major
Looked
Being
Suburban
Urban
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.
Helmut Jahn
Work
Will
Our
Pleasurable
Machine
Environment
Like
Buildings
Want
Create
I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.
Helmut Jahn
Will
Think
Someday
Economic
Developer
Terms
However
Conventional
Require
Who
Skyscraper
Whom
Apply
For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job.
Helmut Jahn
Me
Job
Though
Over
Get
Fun
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