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The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality. Erich Auerbach

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. Erich Auerbach

History Difficult Write Most Make Forced Historians Technique

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed. Erich Honecker

Will Years Wall Standing Reasons Even

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either. Erich Maria Remarque

Life War Wait Over Concerned Anyway Either Far Much

The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers. Erich Maria Remarque

Men Military Every Corner Later Flying Rumours City Disturbed More Through Fired Becomes Said Demonstrating Go Gets Procession Workers Standing Groups Streets Albert

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off. Erich Maria Remarque

Man Women Before Our Way Fury Carried Plough Wounded Faces Gives Crowd Through Roar Over Stumbling Still Go Off Up Goes Being Hold Us Shouting Away

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free. Erich Maria Remarque

Enemy Free Pupil More Recruit Schoolmaster Were Officer Any Then

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population. Ernst Engel

Best Food Family Living Other Must Total Proportion Equal Greater Material Being Which Poorer Used Measure Standard Population Things

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror. Ernst Junger

Man Panic More Bow Terror Uplifting Refuses Who Grows Image

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge. Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Time Knowledge People Men Sorry Duty Crimes Soldiers Laws Had Am Were Led Committed Done Which Who

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Heart People Fatherland German German People Loved Warm

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is. Ernst Lubitsch

Great You Man Remember Made Long Finished Lose Gone Live Stars Silent Directors Could Writers Talent Name Great Talent Were Up Screen Where Title Producers Who Washed Switch

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. Ernst Lubitsch

Smell Finest Leather Order Acquire Hollywood Novels

Life is simply the reification of the process of living. Ernst Mayr

Life Living Simply Process

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. Ernst Mayr

Change Relatively Drastic Drastic Change Claimed Small Isolated Occurs Population

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations. Ernst Mayr

Claim Only Occurs Did Founder

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. Ernst Mayr

Indeed Location Rank Classified Having Had Most Reached Peripheral Occasionally Isolated Occurred Often Again Separate Even Population Found Species

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. Ernst Mayr

Life Friendship My Life Important Big Society Early Years Later Those City New Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Big City Years Offered York New York The Most Important Which Stranger Companionship Thing Early

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. Ernst Mayr

Me Strictly Evolutionary Darwin Seems Rates Vertical Phenomenon

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways. Ernst Mayr

Opportunities Living Adaptive Enter Would Physical Entirely Select Environment New Well Different Unique Novel Population Niches

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. Ernst Mayr

Few Innovations Evolutionary Rapid Give Ecological Inventions Potential Physiological Most Make Improved Behavioral May Doomed Them Species Competitive Extinction

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. Ernst Mayr

Change Claim Claimed Evolutionary Rapid Small Major Geneticist Most Does Occur Theory Novelty Species Founder Widespread

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. Ernst Moritz Arndt

Death Good Nothing God-Like Dies Really

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