Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann.
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The old Jew, he is the man.
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A conversation in 1879 on who was the centre of gravity at the Congress of Berlin, referring to Benjamin Disraeli, as quoted in Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1912) by Andrew Dickson White, p. 482Otto von Bismarck
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Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann!
Benjamin Disraeli
The process did not begin with Horace Mann, although he probably did more to humanize American education in the nineteenth century than any other educator, and thus we tend to trace humanistic roots back to him. Mann was vigorously opposed by ministers of his day, who foresaw the shift from a biblical to a humanistic base for education, but their resistance was gradually overcome.
Horace Mann
Murray Gell-Mann angered [Feynman's] family at a memorial service by asserting "He surrounded himself with a cloud of myth, and he spent a great deal of time and energy generating anecdotes about himself." These were stories, Gell-Mann added, "in which he had to come out, if possible, looking smarter than anyone else."
Richard Feynman
Amerika, du hast es besser—als unser Kontinent, der alte.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Noch einmahl sattelt mir den Hippogryfen, ihr Musen,
Zum Ritt ins alte romantische Land!Christoph Martin Wieland
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