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Searched for phrasing (234 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1914-08-28

    ... French colors, uttered the most overblown phrases. What has become of all these manifestos, proclamations, and telegrams?! – The communications from the general staff indicate the deployment of the armies in the clearest way, so that for him the image of ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-02-27

    ... misused by Adler, who presented Weisse's very ideas as his own, using the turn of phrase: "These thoughts came to me after I had read a piece of work by Mr. Weisse." And in the end, the assistant also said that Adler had finally condescended to incorporate ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-03-28

    ... sure, a nice turn of phrase, and yet: so long as morality is not made into law, so long as the state does not make the effort to express the immanent morality of the situation, however many the compromises to which the concept of order is inherently ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-08-18

    ... , presence of mind, quick-wittedness, and turn of phrase, the joke that attracted so much rebuke served to discharge all the justified bitterness that the vulgar behavior of humanity instilled in him. I understand a joke to be a weapon analogous to, say, the ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-11-11

    ... , likewise the German people deprive themselves of their respect if they take more notice of the English than, conversely, the English do of the Germans. Critical for the English mentality, however, is a phrase in Lord Courtney's speech which refers to the ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-04-06

    ... Phrase oder im kaufmännischen Denken oder in der brutalen Gier äußert. Nicht die veränderte Landkarte wird das Signum des neuen Europa sein, sondern daß die Veränderung im Zeichen des Sieges der Wahrheit über Eitelkeit, lügnerische hohle Ziele u ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-04-09

    ... banner which has as much of a punch as that of universal suffrage. Thus it thrashes out phrases, like liberalism, constantly cries out for peace, as if everyone but itself – princes, statemen, political parties, and so on – were in favor of war. As the ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-06-05

    ... daß sich Deutschland l selbst auslösche? Ceterum censeo: Ceterum censeo: a Latin phrase, often used at the end of a speech, associated particularly with the Roman politician and historian Cato the Elder (234–149 BC). Der Journalismus muß in Acht u ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-02-04

    ... of us. For myself, no further words are necessary. From the very beginning, the gibberish of their phrases was a sufficient pointer for me to see in Wilson the commonplace English villain. In the last January issue of the Die Zukunft, an article on ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-03-29

    ... Dr. Türkel; now he too, to use his phrase, is piqued. The request for the lesson fee is reported, the question about the 10,000 marks has been delayed until April 4; he neither offers me a cigar nor accompanies me to the door. This is evidently an ...

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