I find it almost shameful to confess that I lived in Germany for more than ten years before visiting one of the former concentration camps. Even though I’ve been fascinated by the Second World War since I was a child watching scratchy newsreels in the classroom. Based on those early impressions, Germany is the last place I expected to find myself – and life in modern-day Germany is in fact a strange experience of watching a nation simultaneously trying to heal from those events and wanting to forget that they ever happened.
The camps are, for me, one of the most indelible images of the Nazi regime. I guess anyone who has ever watched the documentary footage of camp liberations is never going to forget it. Somehow the very existence of these places is like a symbol of how far we are prepared to go to disrespect human life and be inhumane to our fellow men.
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Rocking into Monday morning, let’s get the week rolling with some inspiring quotes from my collection of faves. I wish you music in your life.
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Monday morning comin’ around again. Gonna git you more inspiring quotes from my favoured collection. And let it be a wild and wacky week.
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Here’s your regular Monday morning diet of inspiring quotes from my collection of favourites. I hope you hit the tarmac running this week.
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Once again, Monday morning had come around with a joyful inevitability. Thus, he prepared another selection of inspiring quotes for his valued readers.
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In the early stages of ‘Inception’, Christopher Nolan’s masterful metaphysical thriller, the central character, Dom Cobb, poses the question: “What’s the most resilient parasite?” The answer: an idea. “A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.”
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AS HE WAS locking up his bicycle, he heard a muffled sound coming from the direction of the cellar. He was ashamed that his first thought was of her. Not a drunk or a dangerous assailant crouching in the shadows. Clearly he thought of her and wished for her to be there, to need his help again. He picked his way through the half darkness, scarcely daring to breathe. In that short distance, he had already forgiven her for the last time, even for the awful time before. If it was her, he would take her back in an instant. He would offer her sanctuary and the time to change. Hell, he would even change himself.
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Returning to that oasis of possibility called Monday morning. Why not drink from the cool wisdom of some more inspiring quotes?
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This sort of brilliant resource is one of the things I most love about the Internet. A selection of great magazine articles, dating back to 1945, suggested by the readers of CoolTools.
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