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Wet Hot American Summer

Wet Hot American Summer is a 2001 satirical comedy film about the last day at a fictional Jewish summer camp in 1981, before closing for the summer.
 * ''Directed by David Wain. Written by Michael Showalter and David Wain.

High Times. Hard Bodies. Soft Rock.taglines

Beth

 * Well, we've made it to the end of the summer in one piece, except for a few campers who are lepers.

 * McKinley, four lower campers are stuck in the ropes course. I meant to tell you about that yesterday, but could you get to it now?

Coop

 * I love sluts! Sluts rock! It's just, you know, it's just gotta be the right slut, you know?

 * [to Katie] I want you inside me!

 * Wait, Katie! When we first started hanging out together this morning, we were just friends, but things change, and I've fallen in love with you. And, I ju-I just know that if you gave me a chance, I could make you feel so good. So, I'm coming to you, not as your buddy, and not as a co-counselor, but for the first time as a man, a man who loves a woman, and who wants to hold her and provide for her, and yes-have sex with her, but no seriously Katie, I-I love the way you laugh and I love the way your hair smells and I-I love it that sometimes for no reason you're late for shul, and I don't care that you're bowlegged and I don't care that you're bilingual, all I know is that I would have said no to every single person on your list because I've always wanted you.

 * As everybody knows, this week is the big culminating, climactic game against evil Camp Tigerclaw. We have put together an unlikely team of misfits, and we've been training like crazy all summer. Yeah, it's a motley crew that you'd think would never be able to win a single game. We had a kooky training period where it seemed like... well, it seemed like NOTHING was gonna go right. But, guys, somehow we made it to the finals. So I say, when those anonymously evil campers from Camp Tigerclaw get here, we give it our best shot, and we try to come from behind at the last minute with some weird trick play that we made up and we win the game. What do you say, team?

Andy

 * You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore.

Henry

 * Oh, fuck my cock!

Susie

 * Before we start, I'd just like to say the campers you're about to see suck dick! But nevertheless, please welcome them.

 * OK, stop! I feel like I'm watching regional theatre, you guys! God, am I in the Cleveland Playhouse or something? Your craft is a muscle, you need to exercise it! Take a break! Think about what you've done.

Katie

 * Listen, Coop - last night was really great. You were incredibly romantic and heroic, no doubt about it. And that's great. But I've thought about it, and my thing is this: Andy is really hot. And don't get me wrong, you're cute too, but Andy is like, cut. From marble. He's gorgeous. He has this beautiful face and this incredible body, and I genuinely don't care that he's kinda lame. I don't even care that he cheats on me. And I like you more than I like Andy, Coop, but I'm 16. And maybe it'll be a different story when I'm ready to get married, but right now, I am entirely about sex. I just wanna get laid. I just wanna take him and grab him and fuck his brains out, ya know? So that's where my priorities are right now. Sex. Specifically with Andy and not with you. But you're really nice, I mean everybody thinks so. And, I'm sorry if this isn't the direction you saw things going between us. I still totally wanna be friends. You better write me a letter, okay?

Can of Mixed Vegetables

 * If you wanna smear mud on your ass, smear mud on your ass, just be honest about it. Look Gene, I've never told anyone this before, but I can suck my own dick, and I do it a lot.

Dialogue

 * McKinley: Arty, I need you to do me a favor. I need you to take a shower today.
 * Arty: OK.
 * McKinley: 'Cause your parents are coming tomorrow, and I don't want to get in trouble.
 * Arty: Sure.
 * McKinley: You haven't taken a shower once this summer. Not once in 8 weeks.
 * Arty: I will.
 * McKinley: You're covered in dirt. Take a shower.

 * Caped Boy: Excuse me, ladies. You may remember me as the guy who came to dinner a few weeks ago with underwear on my head. My name is Keith Stat from Millburn, New Jersey. State bird, the mosquito. And as you may have heard I am recently a crowned class B dungeon-master. So if any of you would like to play D&D today, please speak now or forever hold your peace. Anyone? Alexa! Maybe you would like to join in? We do need a druid, and you have definitely cast a level 5 charm spell on me.
 * Alexa: In your dreams, douche-bag!
 * Caped Boy: Douche-bags are hygienic products, I take that as a compliment. Thank you.
 * [Caped Boy walks off]
 * Alexa: Ewww!

 * Mallrat Girl: There's got to be another way.
 * Melvin: Maybe we should just let them all die.
 * Mork Guy: No! My friend Jimmy's in there!
 * Cure Girl: You have a friend?
 * Mork Guy: I'm kidding.

 * Susie: [angry that Beth has invited Steve to take part in the talent show] Beth, I may regret saying this, but how dare you usurp my authority as producer...
 * Ben: Hmph!
 * Susie: ...director-slash-choreographer of the talent show. I need you to know I have been busting my balls, woman! I am telling you, the musical numbers are a mess, my kids are a bunch of amateurs, and the last thing I need today is some diabetic freak prancing around on stage making my life a living hell! [after a long pause and a glare from Beth] All right; I'll put him on last.
 * Beth: Good.
 * [Beth walks away]
 * Susie: Oh, she always wins!

 * Gene:...I've seen more fucked up shit out there in five minutes than you've seen in your whole life.
 * Gary: Well, I'm sorry Gene, and if I could change history I would, but-
 * Gene: Fuck you! Now we need fifteen gallons of bug juice by snack time, do you know where the powder packets are?
 * Gary: Yeah.
 * Gene: In the pantry above the sink, right next to my bottle of dick cream, Wait... Forget that last comment.
 * Gary: Did you say dick cream?
 * Gene: No! I said ... stick... team, you know stick team! Stickball! Go away! Leave me alone!

 * Andy: You French great.
 * Lindsay: You're not so bad yourself, Mr. Man.

 * Gene: Now finish up them taters, I'm gonna go fondle my sweaters.
 * Gary: Come on - what?
 * Gene: Finish up the taters.
 * Gary: And then what did you say?
 * Gene: And then what did I say?
 * Gary: You said you were going to... fondle your sweaters.
 * Gene: Ah, uh - no I didn't. I said fondue with cheddar, I was thinking about making fondue with cheddar cheese for dinner tonight.
 * Gary: No Gene, that is not what you said.
 * Gene: That is what I said. Fondue with cheddar.

 * J.J.: He gets so uncomfortable whenever we talk openly about sexual issues. You know he's never been with a girl before.
 * Gary: McKinley needs to experience "The Ultimate". And I think you know what I'm talking about.
 * J.J.: You mean, penis-in-vagina?
 * Gary: No, dickhead. Sex.

 * Lindsay: Hey, what'cha writin on?
 * Andy: My gurnal. I write my thoughts in it every day.
 * Lindsay: Oh, you mean a journal?
 * Andy: Yeah, whatever. Guess I'm not all smart like you.

 * Gail: I hope you like shrimp cocktail, because I want you to be guests of honor at our wedding next week!
 * Beth: Well, I hope it's not jumbo shrimp, because I'm allergic to oxymorons!

 * Susie: You guys, I'm really gonna miss this place.
 * Coop: Me, too.
 * Ben: Hey, let's all promise that in ten years from today, we'll meet again, and we'll see what kind of people we've blossomed into.
 * Lindsay: Yeah!
 * Ben: What time do you wanna meet?
 * J.J.: You mean ten years from now?
 * Ben: Yeah.
 * Coop: Let's meet in the morning so we can make a day of it.
 * Susie: Okay, so what is it? Is it like 9:00 or 9:30?
 * Coop: Well, let's say 9:00, that way we can be here by 9:30.
 * McKinley: Well, no, why don't we say 9:30, and then make it your beeswax to be here at 9:30? I mean, we're all gonna be in our late 20s by then. I just don't see any reason why we can't be places on time.
 * Gary: Okay, then, it's settled. 9:30 it is. All agreed?
 * Together: Agreed.
 * McKinley: Great, 'cause I have something at 11:00.
 * Gary: You've just got like a trapper-keeper full of appointments, right?
 * McKinley: No, I just, I have something at 11:00, and I can't change it, because I already moved it twice.

 * Katie: Well, I just wanna spend some time with you, you know? It's our last day at camp.
 * Andy: My butt itches.
 * Katie: What are you talking about? Hey, we're soulmates, right?
 * Andy: What? Yeah, whatever, if you want... J.J., save me a waffle man!

 * Beth: Hey you, penny for your thoughts.
 * Henry: Beth, tomorrow is the least of our problems.
 * Beth: Don't tell me, Oh don't tell me, don't even tell me you have crabs!
 * Henry: No... Well, yes, but that's not the point.

Taglines

 * High Times. Hard Bodies. Soft Rock.
 * It was the last day of summer camp. It was the first day of the third week in August.

Cast

 * Janeane Garofalo - Beth
 * David Hyde Pierce - Henry Newman
 * Molly Shannon - Gail von Kleinenstein
 * Paul Rudd - Andy
 * Christopher Meloni - Gene
 * Michael Showalter - Gerald "Coop" Cooperberg / Alan Shemper
 * Marguerite Moreau - Katie
 * Michael Ian Black - McKinley
 * Zak Orth - J.J.
 * A.D. Miles - Gary
 * Elizabeth Banks - Lindsay
 * Ken Marino - Victor
 * Joe Lo Truglio - Neil
 * Amy Poehler - Susie
 * Kevin Sussman - Steve
 * Bradley Cooper - Ben
 * Marisa Ryan - Abby
 * Judah Friedlander - Ron
 * H. Jon Benjamin - Can of Mixed Vegetables
 * Jared Reiter - Roger the Master Broom Balancer

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Ava Gardner

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress.

Quotes

 * [On John Ford] The meanest man on earth. Thoroughly evil. Adored him!
 * [On her relationship with Frank Sinatra] We were great in bed. It was usually on the way to the bidet when the trouble began.
 * As cited in Philip French "Philip French's screen legends: No 39: Ava Gardner 1922-90", The Observer (London, December 14, 2008)
 * Gardner worked with John Ford on Mogambo (1953).

Misattributed

 * On The Beach is a story about the end of the world, and Melbourne sure is the right place to film it.
 * In 1959 during the filming of On the Beach.

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Solomon

Solomon ruled the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah in the 10th century BCE. He was the son of King David and is credited with authorship of large portions of the Bible's Book of Proverbs and all of Ecclesiastes, he is also a prophet in Islam and Baha'i.

Quotes

 * The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
 * (KJV)

 * My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
 * (KJV)
 * Variant translations and selections:
 * Happy is the man that has found wisdom, and the man that gets discernment, for having it as gain is better than having silver as gain and having it as produce than gold itself. It is more precious than corals, and all other delights of yours cannot be made equal to it. Length of days is in its right hand; in its left hand there are riches and glory. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its roadways are peace. It is a tree of life to those taking hold of it, and those keeping fast hold of it are to be called happy.
 * Proverbs 3:13-18; New World Translation

 * The insight of a man certainly slows down his anger, and it is beauty on his part to pass over transgression.
 * Proverbs 19:11, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

 * Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
 * (KJV)
 * Variant translation:
 * It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.
 * Proverbs 19:1

 * Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
 * (KJV)
 * Variant translation:
 * Listen to counsel and accept discipline, In order to become wise in your future.
 * Proverbs 19:20

 * A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

 * But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them.

 * It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

 * In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
 * Ecclesiastes, 1:18, King James Version

 * I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
 * Ecclesiastes, 1:13, New American Standard Bible

 * Who is like the wise man? Who knows the solution to a problem? A man’s wisdom lights up his face and softens his stern appearance. I say: “Obey the king’s orders out of regard for the oath to God. Do not rush to depart from his presence. Do not take a stand for anything bad; for he can do whatever he pleases, because the word of the king is absolute; who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?
 * Ecclesiastes 8:1-4, NWT

 * Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

 * And also to the alien, who is not of Thy people Israel, but comes from a distant land on account of Thy fame; for hearing of Thy great name and Thy strong hand, and Thine outstretched arm, he comes to this house to pray... do Thou listen in the heavens, the place where Thou dwellest, and perform all that the alien begs of Thee, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thine own people Israel, and to know that Thy name is proclaimed over this house that I have built.
 * I Kings 8:41-43 on the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem

Quotes about Solomon

 * That one should not be wise above what is written is well demonstrated in the life of King Solomon. The Torah says that the king whom the Israelites should set over them should not multiply horses to himself, nor wives, in order that he might not cause the people to return to Egypt, and that his heart might not turn away (Deut. 17. 16, 17). 'Then,' argued Solomon, 'since the reason for the paucity of wives and horses is given, I am sure that I can stand proof against these; I can multiply horses and wives and shall not turn away and will not cause my people to return to Egypt.' Unfortunately he was not proof against the prohibitions, as it is recorded against him (in 1 Kings 2. 1-7). And one can also see the wisdom of the Torah in withholding any reason for many commandments it enjoins.
 *  6, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 93

 * The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
 * Jesus, (KJV)
 * Variant translation:
 * The queen of the south will be raised up in the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Sol′o·mon. But look! something more than Sol′o·mon is here.
 * Luke 11:31 (NWT)

 * Solomon was a 'copper king', and all along that Araba, on both sides, we found many copper mines and smelting stations, all attributable to Solomon and his immediate successors.
 * Cyrus H. Gordon, Adventures in the Nearest East (1957)

 * When King Solomon is dedicating the Temple, his prayer includes these words, addressed to the creator of the universe: “Behold, the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have builded.” Nowhere does Solomon exhibit his wisdom better than here. Let us never suppose that the structures of our human minds can contain God.
 * Alicia Ostriker Interview
 * King Solomon is credited with fewer homicides than his predecessors and is remembered instead for building the Temple in Jerusalem and for writing the books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs (though with a harem of seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, he clearly didn’t spend all his time writing). Most of all he is remembered for his eponymous virtue, “the wisdom of Solomon.” Two prostitutes sharing a room give birth a few days apart. One of the babies dies, and each woman claims that the surviving boy is hers. The wise king adjudicates the dispute by pulling out a sword and threatening to butcher the baby and hand each woman a piece of the bloody corpse. One woman withdraws her claim, and Solomon awards the baby to her. “When all Israel heard of the verdict that the king had rendered, they stood in awe of the king, because they saw that he had divine wisdom in carrying out justice.” The distancing effect of a good story can make us forget the brutality of the world in which it was set. Just imagine a judge in family court today adjudicating a maternity dispute by pulling out a chain saw and threatening to butcher the baby before the disputants’ eyes. Solomon was confident that the more humane woman (we are never told that she was the mother) would reveal herself, and that the other woman was so spiteful that she would allow a baby to be slaughtered in front of her—and he was right! And he must have been prepared, in the event he was wrong, to carry out the butchery or else forfeit all credibility. The women, for their part, must have believed that their wise king was capable of carrying out this grisly murder.
 * Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (2012)
 * The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave, rape, and murder members of their immediate families. Warlords slaughter civilians indiscriminately, including the children. Women are bought, sold, and plundered like sex toys. And Yahweh tortures and massacres people by the hundreds of thousands for trivial disobedience or for no reason at all. These atrocities are neither isolated nor obscure. They implicate all the major characters of the Old Testament, the ones that Sunday-school children draw with crayons. And they fall into a continuous plotline that stretches for millennia, from Adam and Eve through Noah, the patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, the judges, Saul, David, Solomon, and beyond. According to the biblical scholar Raymund Schwager, the Hebrew Bible “contains over six hundred passages that explicitly talk about nations, kings, or individuals attacking, destroying, and killing others. . . . Aside from the approximately one thousand verses in which Yahweh himself appears as the direct executioner of violent punishments, and the many texts in which the Lord delivers the criminal to the punisher’s sword, in over one hundred other passages Yahweh expressly gives the command to kill people.” Matthew White, a self-described atrocitologist who keeps a database with the estimated death tolls of history’s major wars, massacres, and genocides, counts about 1.2 million deaths from mass killing that are specifically enumerated in the Bible. (He excludes the half million casualties in the war between Judah and Israel described in 2 Chronicles 13 because he considers the body count historically implausible.) The victims of the Noachian flood would add another 20 million or so to the total. The good news, of course, is that most of it never happened. Not only is there no evidence that Yahweh inundated the planet and incinerated its cities, but the patriarchs, exodus, conquest, and Jewish empire are almost certainly fictions. Historians have found no mention in Egyptian writings of the departure of a million slaves (which could hardly have escaped the Egyptians’ notice); nor have archaeologists found evidence in the ruins of Jericho or neighboring cities of a sacking around 1200 BCE. And if there was a Davidic empire stretching from the Euphrates to the Red Sea around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE, no one else at the time seemed to have noticed it.
 * Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (2012)

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Richard Smalley

Richard Smalley (6 June 1943 – 28 October 2005) was a renowned American chemist, nanotechnogist, and a Nobel laureate for his discovery of the carbon form Buckminsterfullerene.

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 * Recently I have gone back to church regularly with a new focus to understand as best I can what it is that makes Christianity so vital and powerful in the lives of billions of people today, even though almost 2000 years have passed since the death and resurrection of Christ. Although I suspect I will never fully understand, I now think the answer is very simple: it's true. God did create the universe about 13.7 billion years ago, and of necessity has involved Himself with His creation ever since. The purpose of this universe is something that only God knows for sure, but it is increasingly clear to modern science that the universe was exquisitely fine-tuned to enable human life. We are somehow critically involved in His purpose. Our job is to sense that purpose as best we can, love one another, and help Him get that job done.
 * May 2005, letter sent to the Hope College 2005 Alumni Banquet where he was awarded a distinguished alumni award; his illness prevented him from attending in person.

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Adolph Freiherr Knigge

Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr Knigge (16 October 1752 – 6 May 1796) was a German writer and Freemason, most famous for his book Über den Umgang mit Menschen [On Human Relations]. Although the work is more of a philosophical treatise on the basis of human relations than a how-to guide to etiquette, the German term “Knigge” has come to mean “good manners”.

Quotes

 * Ohne Begeisterung, welche die Seele mit einer gesunden Wärme erfüllt, wird nie etwas Großes zustande gebracht.
 * Without inspiration, which fills the soul with a healthy warmth, nothing great can ever be brought to pass.
 * As quoted in 30 Minuten für intelligente Schlagfertigkeit (2004) by Stephané Etrillard, p. 55.

 * In Städten glaubt man, es gehöre zum guten Tone, nicht einmal zu wissen, wer in demselben Hause wohnt.
 * In cities people think that it is good manners not even to know who lives in the same building.
 * Quoted in Der kleine Rechthaber: Wem gehört die Parklücke und andere juristische Überraschungen (2008) by Claus Murken, p. 79.

Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)

 * Achte dich selbst, wenn du willst, dass andere dich achten sollen!
 * Variant: „Respektiere Dich selbst, wenn Du willst, daß andre Dich respektieren sollen.“
 * Book 1, Chapter 2, Section 5.
 * Respect yourself, if you want others to respect you.
 * Variant: "Have a proper regard for yourself if you wish to be esteemed by others."

 * Handle gut und anständig, weniger anderen zu gefallen, eher um deine eigene Achtung nicht zu verscherzen.
 * Act well and properly, less to please others, more to keep your own self-respect.

 * Ehre das Alter!
 * Respect old age!

 * Eine der wichtigsten Tugenden im gesellschaftlichen Leben, die täglich seltener wird, ist die Verschwiegenheit.
 * One of the most important virtues in social life, a virtue that is becoming less common by the day, is discretion.

 * Vor allen Dingen soll man nie vergessen, daß die Gesellschaft lieber unterhalten, als unterrichtet sein will.
 * One should never forget, that society would rather be amused than instructed.
 * Variant translation: Above all, we should never forget that society would prefer to be entertained, than taught.

 * Es gibt keine Notlügen; noch nie ist eine Unwahrheit gesprochen worden, die nicht früh oder spät nachteillige Folgen für jedermann gehabt hätte.
 * There is no such thing as a 'white lie' — there has not yet been an untruth uttered, that sooner or later hasn't led to unfortunate consequences for everyone.

 * Gar zu leicht missbrauchen oder vernachlässigen uns die Menschen, sobald wir mit ihnen vertraulich werden. Um angenehm zu leben, muss man fast immer ein Fremder unter den Leuten bleiben.
 * People far too easily neglect or abuse us, as soon as we become intimate with them. To live pleasantly, one must almost always remain a stranger in the crowd.

 * In deiner Kleidung verfalle nie in Nachlässigkeit, wenn du allein bist. Gehe nicht schmutzig, nicht krumm noch mit groben Manieren einher, wenn dich niemand beobachtet.
 * When you are alone, never let your clothing fall into disarray. Do not allow yourself to be dirty, have poor posture, or have rude manners when no one is observing you.

 * Keine Verbindungen pflegen dauerhafter zu sein als die, welche in der frühen Jugend geschlossen werden. Man ist da noch weniger misstrauisch, weniger schwierig in Kleinigkeiten.
 * No bonds last longer than those made in early youth. At that age one is less mistrustful and less troubled by trifles.

 * Lerne den Ton der Gesellschaft anzunehmen, in der du dich befindest.
 * Learn to take on the tone of whatever company you find yourself in.

 * Lerne Widerspruch ertragen. Sei nicht kindisch eingenommen von deinen Meinungen.
 * Learn to bear criticism. Do not be childishly biased by your own opinions.

 * Sei nicht zu sehr ein Sklave der Meinungen andrer von dir! Sei selbständig! Was kümmert dich am Ende das Urteil der ganzen Welt, wenn du tust, was du sollst?
 * Do not be too much a slave of others' opinions of you! Be self-sufficient! Why, in the end, does the opinion of the whole world trouble you, if you do what you should?

 * Der Umgang mit Kindern hat für einen verständigen Menschen unendlich viel Interesse. Hier sieht er das Buch der Natur in unverfälschter Ausgabe aufgeschlagen.
 * For a person of understanding, interacting with children is endlessly interesting. Here one sees the book of nature thrown open, stripped of artificiality.

 * Über viele Dinge urteilen Kinder, von Systemgeist, Leidenschaft und Gelehrsamkeit unverführt, weit richtiger als Erwachsene.
 * In many matters children — not ensnared by dogmatism, passion, or erudition — judge far truer than adults.

 * Vor einem grauen Haupte sollst du aufstehen!
 * Rise in the presence of a gray head.

 * Wer immer in Zerstreuungen lebt, wird fremd im eigenen Herzen.
 * Whoever lives continually in a state of dissipation and distraction, becomes a stranger in his own heart.

 * Wir sehen die klügsten, verständigsten Menschen im Leben Schritte tun, über die wir den Kopf schütteln müssen.
 * We see the wisest, most intelligent people take steps in life, that we must shake our head over.

 * Zwang tötet alle edle, freiwillige Hingebung.
 * Compulsion kills all noble, freely given devotion.
 * This is often shortened to "Zwang tötet": "Compulsion kills" or "Force kills".

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