#ear

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#did #elite #group #i #know

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets. ↗

— Charles Grassley

#financial #financial markets #fundamental #integrity #markets

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#child #different #different way #gifted #good

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#get #i #money #paid #try

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#advice #between #companies #doctors #drug companies

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. ↗

— Robert Graves

#different #different colors #experiences #gets #heart

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ↗

— Robert Graves

#good #people #really #remarkable #say

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ↗

— Robert Graves

#good #people #really #remarkable #say