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Diary entry for 1919-02-14
... conscience (how, and when, has it ever been lost since 1914, unless as a result of social democracy?); "France can be unsettled …" Wilson's motives for his accommodation with respect to Foch demands. Total disarmament of Germany! – Wilson yields to Clémenceau ...
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Diary entry for 1919-02-27
... in Europe is casting suspicions on the motives of America" (on the contrary!); "the United States spontaneously placed all its sources of assistance at the disposal of those …" etc. (against the decision of the Senate!); |nothing but ideals lent a ...
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Diary entry for 1928-10-24
... rendered! I show him the secret of the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream – the motive of a fourth; that of the "Eroica" – the neighbor note; and I again make an attempt with Brahms: under the pretext of showing him an Urlinie, I sneak in the piece and ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-27
... made its neighbors aware of the internal dissent in the house of Austria. The wicked neighbor drew conclusions from that which seemed to penetrate through the walls; and if there was a motivated cause for the war, it was primarily this: that from the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-12-16
... even better – on account of their very artificiality, always produced delightful results? Human beings are so dismal that one could motivate them even to worship, say, a chair if one merely spares them answering the question as to why and for what ...
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Diary entry for 1915-04-04
... sight of Father's most serious plight was insufficient to motivate him to make a contribution, for instance, by giving lessons to reduce the burdens placed upon Father (as I did!). As a college student, he paid for his stay and studies in Vienna by ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-18
... , always organically, never without motivation. The comic contains the germ of the tragic. But is it not a misfortune of the human race that it is never able to catch hold of the moment in which the comic becomes tragic, to say nothing of being capable of ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-15
... a profit motive. But he finds it severe when the authorities put a stop to his activities and calls the non-attainment of his unrealistically conceived business "having to be out of pocket." In his most recent speech to parliament, Briand "registers ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-19
... Differenzen auf religiösem Gebiete dahin, die jetzt scheinbar allein das Hindernis zum Herrschaftsantritt bilden. June 19, 1916. 10°, cloudy. Postcard to Vrieslander; I confirm the receipt of his letter; a few words about his march motive, about military music ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-25
... Jahr gesichert sein, eine Summe, die Beamtenbezüge weit überflügelt. Den Anspruch auf so hohen Erwerb motiviert er laut wie heimlich damit, daß er den anderen es nicht schuldet, sich mit wenig zu begnügen, als wäre ein solches Motiv nicht auch Ursache ...