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German Minorities Still Fight To Be Seen, Heard : NPR

Monday, January 12th, 2009

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Morning Edition, January 12, 2009 Â· In Europe, Barack Obama’s election as president of the United States was met with euphoria. But now, the continent is peering into the mirror, realizing there is little chance a member of one of its own minorities could reach such prominence any time soon.

German Minorities Still Fight To Be Seen, Heard : NPR.

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February 18

â€œThus when the ambitious man whose watchword was â€˜Either Caesar or nothingâ€™ does not become Caesar, he is in despair thereat. But this signifies something else, namely, that precisely because he did not become Caesar he now cannot endure to be himself. So properly he is not in despair over the fact that he did […]

February 17

â€œYou may perhaps beat science into a person, but the ethical has to be beaten out of them, as with the corporal who, on seeing the makings of a soldier in a country lad, could say, â€˜Iâ€™ll manage to beat a soldier out of him,â€™ whereas when it comes to imparting the little book on […]

February 17

â€œSo for the first thing, the knight will have power to concentrate the whole content of life and the whole significance of reality into a single wish. If a man lacks this concentration, this intensity, if his soul from the beginning is dispersed in the multifarious, he never comes to the point of making the […]

February 15

â€œThis was the commandment, â€˜Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,â€™ but when the commandment is rightly understood it also says the converse, â€˜Thou shalt love thyself in the right way.â€™ If anyone, therefore, will not learn from Christianity to love himself in the right way, then neither can he love his neighbor; he may […]

February 14

Save me, O God, from ever being completely sure; keep me unsure until the end so that then, if I receive eternal blessedness, I might be completely sure that I have it by grace! It is empty shadowboxing to give assurances that one believes it is by grace â€” and then to be completely sure. […]

February 13

â€œAre the consequences of Christâ€™s life more important than His life? No, by no means, quite the contrary â€” if this were so, Christ was merely a man.â€ â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€“ ~Source: Practice in Christianity (1850) Author: SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Anti-Climacus Filed under: Blooms Tagged: Anti-Climacus, Practice in Christianity (1850) […]

February 12

â€œHow poor a thing is language compared with the unmeaning yet significant combination of clangorous sounds in a battle or at a banquet, which not even a theatrical rendering can reproduce, and for which language possess but a few words! Yet how rich is language in the service of the wish, compared with its use […]

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