2012年5月14日 星期一

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Chinese tea tycoon and son among four dead when helicopter crashed in Bordeaux vineyard

Chinese tea tycoon and son among four dead when helicopter crashed into a river as they flew over his newly purchased Bordeaux vineyard

  • Lam Kok and seller James Gregoire were viewing the property from above

  • Mr Kok's 12-year-old son and an interpreter were also aboard the aircraft
  • All four killed when the helicopter dropped from the sky near Bordeaux
The Chinese billionaire and his son died when his helicopter crashed into the Dordogne river while they were admiring the family's newly purchased vineyards in south west France.

Lam Kok, a 46-year-old Chinese tycoon, was with his 12-year-old son when their helicopter dropped out of the sky near Bordeaux.

Four people died in total, including pilot James Gregoire, who had just sold the vineyards of Chateau de la Riviera to Mr Kok.
Missing: Chinese tea tycoon Lam Kok stands with James Gregoire and their respective wives after sealing the deal on his purchase of the Chateau de la Riviere in Bordeaux, France, just an hour before going missing tonight

Rescue operation: Search lights shine across the Dordogne after the helicopter Mr Kok and Mr Gregoire were travelling in apparently plunged into the river as they made an aerial survey of the property this evening
Rescue divers look out from their boat as they hunt for any signs of the two men. Mr Kok's 12-year-old son and an interpreter were also aboard the aircraft, which an eyewitness reported seeing plummet into the river

Major operation: Emergency helicopters and around 100 officers joined the search which began after the helicopter did not return after 20 minutes and those who had stayed behind contacted emergency services

Mr Kok's wife pulled out at the last minute saying she was 'scared of helicopters', an AFP photographer at the scene said.
Mr Gregoire had bought the land and its 8th Century chateau in 2003 after Jean Leprince, the previous owner, died when his aircraft also crashed nearby.
All in the helicopter had been taking part in a celebratory press day, marking the sale of the historic estate.

They were planning to take a short tour of the vineyard and the grounds of the Château de la Riviere, and when they did not return after 20 minutes, those who had stayed behind contacted emergency services.


In a bizarre twist of fate, a previous owner of the Château de la Riviere -- one of the region's oldest estates -- was killed in a helicopter crash in 2002.

Mr Gregoire bought the 160-acre property, the largest in Bordeaux's Fronsac appellation, the following year.
Mr Kok and Mr Gregoire shake hands to seal the deal: The tycoon bought the château for an undisclosed sum

The business of luxury: Mr Kok's Brilliant group, which specialises in rare teas and luxury hotels in China, had said it wanted to turn the château into a high class tea and wine tasting centre

Shake on it: Mr Kok's company, whose interests range from Pu'er - a dark fermented tea from China's Yunnan region - to top-end resorts, also planned to build a hotel near the chateau

Mr Kok and his wife pose in the vineyard: Chinese consumers have developed a taste for fine French wines and their buying power has been credited with pushing prices for certain vintages to record levels.

Earlier Friday, the vineyard's managing director Xavier Buffo said during a press conference the sale marked the largest Chinese investment in Bordeaux property to date.
Mr Kok's Brilliant group, which specialises in rare teas and luxury hotels in China, had said it wanted to turn the château into a high class tea and wine tasting centre.
The group, whose interests range from Pu'er - a dark fermented tea from China's Yunnan region - to top-end resorts, also planned to build a hotel near the château.
Chinese consumers have developed a taste for the finest French wines and their extensive buying power has been credited with pushing prices for certain vintages to record levels.
In recent years they have increasingly taken to buying vineyards as well. But the level of each transaction has generally been under 10million euros ($13.6 million).


Source: dailymail    Dec, 2013


English Language Arts: Poetry - How to Write a Cinquain

CanTeach: English Language Arts: Poetry - How to Write a Cinquain

2012年5月11日 星期五

【名家散文】徐志摩︰泰山日出


更新: 2009-01-03 10:43 AM         
     
我們在泰山頂上看出太陽。在航過海的人,看太陽從地平線下爬上來,本不是奇事;而且我個人是曾飽飫過江海與印度洋無比的日彩的。但在高山頂上看日出,尤其在泰山頂上,我們無饜的好奇心,當然盼望一種特異的境界,與平原或海上不同的。果然,我們初起時,天還暗沉沉的,西方是一片的鐵青,東方些微有些白意,宇宙只是——如用舊詞形容——一體莽莽蒼蒼的。但這是我一面感覺勁烈的曉寒,一面睡眼不曾十分醒豁時約略的印象。等到留心回覽時,我不由得大聲的狂叫——因為眼前只是一個見所未見的境界。原來昨夜整夜暴風的工程,卻砌成一座普遍的雲海。除了日觀峰與我們所在的玉皇頂以外,東西南北只是平鋪著彌漫的雲氣,在朝旭未露前,宛似無量數厚毳長絨的綿羊,交頸接背的眠著,卷耳與彎角都依稀辨認得出。那時候在這茫茫的雲海中,我獨自站在霧靄溟蒙的小島上,發生了奇異的幻想——

我軀體無限的長大,腳下的山巒比例我的身量,只是一塊拳石;這巨人披著散發,長髮在風裏像一面墨色的大旗,颯颯的在飄蕩。這巨人豎立在大地的頂尖上,仰面向著東方,平拓著一雙長臂,在盼望,在迎接,在催促,在默默的叫喚;在崇拜,在祈禱,在流淚——在流久慕未見而將見悲喜交互的熱淚……

這淚不是空流的,這默禱不是不生顯應的。
巨人的手,指向著東方——
東方有的,在展露的,是什麼?

東方有的是瑰麗榮華的色彩,東方有的是偉大普照的光明出現了,到了,在這裏了……
玫瑰汁、葡萄漿、紫荊液、瑪瑙精、霜楓葉——大量的染工,在層累的雲底工作;無數蜿蜒的魚龍,爬進了蒼白色的雲堆。
一方的異彩,揭去了滿天的睡意,喚醒了四隅的明霞——
光明的神駒,在熱奮地馳騁…


雲海也活了;眠熟了獸形的濤瀾,又回復了偉大的呼嘯,昂頭搖尾的向著我們朝露染青饅形的小島沖洗,激起了四岸的水沫浪花,震盪著這生命的浮礁,似在報告光明與歡欣之臨蒞……

再看東方——海句力士已經掃蕩了他的阻礙,雀屏似的金霞,從無垠的肩上產生,展開在大地的邊沿。起……起……用力,用力。純焰的圓顱,一探再探的躍出了地平,翻登了雲背,臨照在天空……

歌唱呀,讚美呀,這是東方之復活,這是光明的勝利……
散發禱祝的巨人,他的身彩橫亙在無邊的雲海上,已經漸漸的消翳在普遍的歡欣裏;現在他雄渾的頌美的歌聲,也已在霞彩變幻中,普徹了四方八隅……

聽呀,這普徹的歡聲;看呀,這普照的光明!

這是我此時回憶泰山日出時的幻想,亦是我想望泰戈爾來華的頌詞

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【名家散文】徐志摩:戀愛到底是什麼一回事

更新: 2009-02-13 10:55 AM         
         
戀愛他到底是什麼一回事?
他來的時候我還不曾出世;
太陽為我照上了二十幾個年頭,
我只是個孩子,認不識半點愁;
忽然有一天──我又愛又恨那一天──
我心坎裏癢齊齊的有些不連牽,
那是我這輩子第一次上當,
有人說是受傷──你摸摸我的胸膛──
他來的時候我還不曾出世,
戀愛他到底是什麼一回事?


這來我變了,一隻沒籠頭的馬,
跑遍了荒涼的人生的曠野;
又像是那古時間獻璞玉的楚人,
手指著心窩,說這裏面有真有真,
你不信時一刀拉破我的心頭肉,
看那血淋淋的一掬是玉不是玉;
血!那無情的宰割,我的靈魂:
是誰逼迫我發最後的疑問?


 疑問!這回我自己幸喜我的夢醒,
上帝,我沒有病,再不來對你呻吟!
我再不想成仙,蓬萊不是我的分;
我只要這地面,情願安分的做人,──
從此再不問戀愛是什麼一回事,
反正他來的時候我還不曾出世!


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鄭多燕老師讲….守緊10誡,不用挨餓就能瘦身!!

 

鄭多燕老師說,單靠意志力的瘦身行動持續不了多久。因此,她認為瘦身的成功與否,其實跟痛苦相伴的嚴格飲食限制無關。如果妳想瘦得漂亮並不是不吃,而是要吃對。

聰明的飲食,才能成功瘦身而不用擔心「溜溜球效應」,時間再久都不會失敗。什麼是聰明的飲食呢?請緊守下面10誡。

01 少量!多餐!

大部份的人都是一天吃三餐。即使肚子還不餓,時間到了就按時用餐,這是因為人們認為一天用餐三次是正確的習慣。然而,這種習慣正是造成肥胖的元兇。其實我們不需要受「三餐」這數字的限制。瘦身的過程中,做好不受用餐次數的侷限、免於挨餓的飲食管理是很重要的。所以,瘦身期間不妨改為一天分成6∼8次的少量多餐方式。此外,不分正餐或點心,只要是吃東西就算是一餐。

02 不必戰戰競競計算卡路里!

充分攝取身體需要的養分,比斤斤計較熱量來得更重要。勤加補充瘦身輔助食品或是每一餐都計算熱量的飲食方式,反而會造成壓力妨礙瘦身計劃的落實。與其減的這麼辛苦,妳更需要的是少量多餐,並且充分攝取碳水化合物及蛋白質、纖維質、維他命等均衡的營養。

03 少用調味料,享用食材本身的天然美味!

又辣又鹹的重口味食物會讓妳吃得更多,最好養成口味清淡的習慣。只要懂得善用香草類植物或是辛香料,即使沒有重度刺激性的調味,一樣能夠滿足妳的味蕾。

04 遠離3種白色食品!

白麵粉、白糖、白米飯這三種都是過度精緻化的食品,營養成分幾乎都被去除,只剩下高度的熱量。請以玄米飯或五穀飯取代白飯,用全榖麵包取代白麵包,用寡糖、蜂蜜、天然糖分等取代白糖。

05 天黑之後禁止攝取碳水化合物!

太陽下山之後應該停止攝取碳水化合物(榖類)。要記得碳水化合物主要提供身體所需能量。
攝取碳水化合物之後如果不運動,就無法轉換成能量,只會變成脂肪囤積在體內。那麼晚上攝取的碳水化合物就無可避免的變成可怕的體脂肪了。因此,必須遵守的飲食第1條誡律就是,晚上不可以攝取碳水化合物。

06 多攝取各色的天然食物!

想要維持美好的身材,又想要留住青春,最好攝取抗氧化作用十分顯著的各色食物。假使妳覺得很難記清楚哪一種食材具有什麼樣的成分,那就讓自己習慣於攝取各種顏色的食材。紅色的番茄、黃色的南瓜、綠色的青花菜、紫色的茄子、黑色的黑豆、白色的高麗菜,依循這種方式來均衡飲食即可。



一旦決心要開始減肥了,妳的第一個行動是什麼呢?人們多半都是以節食或是斷食作為瘦身的第一步。但是,比起計較吃的份量,只要改變吃的順序,身體的吸收程度就大不相同。中午之前可以增加碳水化合物的食用份量,下午3∼4點之後要增加蛋白質和膳食纖維的份量來取代碳水化合物。晚餐時段不妨採用以水果或是蔬菜為主的菜單,這樣就能免於挨餓的痛苦了。妳可以吃得聰明,而不是一味的挨餓。

08 忍受飢餓的瘦身方式是通往複胖體質的「高速公路」!

常聽到許多在短時間內成功瘦身的人,在中斷瘦身之後,過一段時間又復胖的例子。這些人的共通點是急速地減少食量或是乾脆不進食,不充分攝取食物的結果是面臨「溜溜球效應」,甚至成為容易發胖的體質。持續不進食的瘦身方式,會造成身體的代謝越來越差,最後反而會變成容易發胖的體質。然後,落得「不吃也發胖」的下場。

09 晚上就寢前三小時結束最後的用餐!

晚上太晚用餐,吃進去的食物就會直接轉為脂肪堆積在體內。這樣產生的脂肪特別容易累積在腹部,所以經常太晚用餐的人有很多都是腹部肥胖。晚餐最好是在就寢之前3∼4小時內結束,或是最晚七點要結束晚餐。

10 星期天是Free Day!想怎麼吃,就怎麼吃。

過度的節制或是限制飲食的瘦身計劃,可能剛開始就看得到效果,但是很容易因為不開心而造成心理壓力或是導致暴飲暴食。這樣的結果,不外乎是無法持續下去而宣告失敗。如果一個星期下來該做的運動都有做、飲食都有控制,那麼至少把星期天這一天定為休息日,想怎麼吃就怎麼吃,既不會累積心理壓力又可以吃得安心。然後,隔天再繼續運動控制飲食就行了。因為不是每天都這樣放縱自己,所以不用擔心會因此而影響減肥成果。

2012 Dooms day Predictions Happening

Some recollections of Jane Eyre

Chapter 1

Gateshead Hall
Jane Eyre, a 10-year-old orphan, has been living with her Aunt Reed at Gateshead Hall. Both the aunt and her family are very hostile towards Jane; in particular, John Reed, the 14-year-old son, treats her very badly. One day the Reed children find Jane reading and John Reed throws a book at her. When she fights back, she is taken away by Mrs Reed and some servants.

Chapter 2

The Red-room
Jane is taken to the red-room, a little-used dark bedroom decorated in shades of red. It is the room where Mr Reed died and Jane finds it frightening. When it grows dark, she panics and tries to be let out of the room but she is forced back in. She collapses in a fit.

Chapter 3 (III)

Recovery
Concerned at her collapse, Jane is taken from the red-room to her own bed where she is checked over by an apothecary, Mr Lloyd. While the Reeds are out, he and Bessie, the kindest servant, console Jane. During their conversation, Mr Lloyd suggests that Jane might go away to school.

Chapter 4 (IV)

A visit from Mr Brocklehurst
Jane's retaliation against John Reed and her subsequent collapse cause the Reeds to keep their distance from her. Some months later, there is a visit from Mr Brocklehurst, the stern and religious proprietor of Lowood School. He interviews Jane and agrees to admit her to his school. After he leaves, Jane is left alone with Mrs Reed and she reveals her true feelings to the latter, upsetting her aunt.

Chapter 5

Lowood School
After a long and tiresome journey, Jane arrives at Lowood. The next day, she is introduced to the school's routine and its teachers, who vary in kindess and consideration. She makes her first friend among the pupils, Helen Burns, who possesses an unusual intellect and character, even when being harshly punished by one of the teachers.
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Chapter 11

Thornfield Hall
Jane travels to Thornfield Hall where she meets Mrs Fairfax, a friendly elderly lady whom she assumes is the owner of the house. The next day, it is revealed that Mrs Fairfax is the housekeeper and the owner is Mr Rochester who is away from home. She is introduced to Adèle, the young girl that she is to be governess to and daughter of a French dancer. Jane begins her life as a governess and starts to learn about the inhabitants of Thornfield.

Chapter 12

An encounter at dusk
Over the next few months, Jane settles into her new life, getting to know Adèle and the servants. One day in January, after posting a letter in the nearest village, she encounters a man on horseback in a lane. The result is that the horse falls and the man sustains a minor injury. She helps him to his horse and he rides off but, on returning to Thornfield, Jane learns that he was Mr Rochester, the owner of the house.
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Chapter 23

Midsummer confessions
One evening, Jane and Mr Rochester meet in the grounds. They talk together and Rochester finally admits that he loves Jane and proposes. She agrees to marry him.

Chapter 24

The bride-to-be
The household prepares for the marriage with Jane and Rochester travelling into Millcote to buy her things for the wedding.

Chapter 25

A visitation in the night
In the days before the wedding, while Mr Rochester is away, Jane is woken in the night by a strange woman who puts the former's veil on her head before tearing it in two. On his return, Rochester tries to reassure Jane but with little success.

Chapter 26

Mrs Edward Rochester
On the day of the wedding, Jane and Mr Rochester are in the middle of the ceremony when they are interrupted by a solicitor who reveals that Rochester is already married. The service is cancelled and he takes everyone to the room in Thornfield where his wife is looked after by Grace Poole. The woman has been mad for most of their married life and Jane realises that her hopes for the future are lost.

Chapter 27

Answers and choices
After spending some time alone in her room, Jane emerges to meet Mr Rochester who tells her more of his past and the marriage. Although they both still love each other, Jane decides that she cannot stay any longer and, early in the morning, she flees Thornfield.
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Chapter 28

Alone again
After travelling by coach for two days, Jane finds herself in a remote part of the country. She sleeps on the moors overnight and then enters the nearest village to look for food and employment with little success. The next day is equally disappointing and, towards evening, starving and weary, Jane crawls towards an isolated house. She knocks on the door but the servant there refuses to let her in. However, the man of the house returns at that moment and invites her inside.

Chapter 29

The Rivers of Moor House
Jane gradually recovers and learns that the building, Moor House, is occupied by three siblings, St John, Diana and Mary Rivers. They are kind to Jane but St John, though handsome, seems rather cold and remote. She tells them much but keeps her history with Thornfield and Mr Rochester secret.

Chapter 34

Propositions on the moors
Near to Christmas, Jane shuts up the school and Diana and Mary return from their jobs. During the next week, Jane learns that Rosamond Oliver has decided to marry another man while St John remains rather distant with Jane.
In the spring, St John takes a walk alone with Jane where he asks her to be his wife and travel with him to India. Jane is happy to go with him but not as his wife which would simply be a marriage of convenience. St John can not agree to this and his attitude to her becomes even colder.

Chapter 35

A day of decisions
A few days later, Jane and St John are talking. He is still under the impression that Jane will marry him and journey to India, and again she has to refuse him. Later on, he asks her again to marry him and, as Jane is wavering, she appears to hear Mr Rochester's voice calling to her.
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Chapter 36

The fate of Thornfield
The next day, Jane decides that she has to go to Thornfield to find out what has happened to Mr Rochester. She travels there but finds that Thornfield is a blackened ruin, destroyed for some time by fire. She enquires at an inn what had happened and is told that his wife had set fire to the house. She had died falling from the roof but, in an attempt to rescue people, Rochester had lost his sight and one hand. He now resides in his smaller home at Ferndean.

Chapter 37

Reconciliation
Jane hires a carriage to take her immediately to Ferndean. She finds that Mr Rochester lives there with just two servants and has retreated into himself. She greets Rochester who is delighted by her return and worries that she might leave him again. But Jane decides that she wants to marry him.

Chapter 38

Conclusion
The final chapter is written ten years in the future. Jane and Rochester are happily married with a child, and his sight is beginning to return. Diana and Mary are married but regularly visit Ferndean. St John is in India, following his vocation, but Jane suspects that he will not live much longer. Yet he is content with his life.
source: www.jane-eyre.guidesite.co.uk/

2012年5月1日 星期二

We should spend welfare billions on new high-speed rail links for the north of England, says George Osborne

Britain's welfare budget should be redirected to funding new transport links for the north, George Osborne suggested today.
 
The Chancellor warned the great cities of the north are 'weaker than the sum of their parts' and need billions more in investment to compete with London.
 
But he said there was a 'real choice' between spending on road and rail projects to boost the economy, and rising benefits payments 'trapping people in poverty'.
A group of northern cities is demanding £15 billion to fund major improvements in the region.
 
The One North report, compiled by cities including Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool, proposes a 125mph transpennine rail link aimed at cutting journey times between Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester.
 
Critics claim public money is targeted at London and the South East, resulting in ever-greater returns with which the north cannot compete.
 
But Mr Osborne insisted it was wrong to think there was choice between north and south.
 
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'I think the real choice in our country is actually spending money on this big economic infrastructure, transpennine rail links, Crossrail 2 in London and the like, and spending money on, for example, welfare payments which are not generating either a real economic return and at the same time are trapping people in poverty.'
 
He said the country faces 'public expenditure choices' and it was wrong to focus on a narrow cost-benefit analysis for individual projects.
'Of course you can look at an individual project narrowly and say, is this, in the narrow economic model, a good return on your money? Or you can try and capture a bigger vision.
 
'That's what I'm trying to do here; I'm trying to say, look, if you can bring these northern cities together with this individual transport schemes that collectively create this northern powerhouse, then you might achieve something really important in our country which is something that's eluded governments for many, many decades of all colours. Which is real improvement in economic activity in the north.'
Mr Osborne claims that if the economy in the north of England grew at the same rate as UK as a whole it would add more than £50billion to GDP by 2030.



The One North report covers the next 15 years and calls for improved access to ports, spending on motorways and new freight and logistics terminals.
Mr Osborne said it was a 'very imaginative set of proposals' to tackling the problems northern cities face.
'They're individually great but collectively they are weaker than the sum of their parts.
'And we need to make sure that we've got a northern powerhouse so that our economy in this country is not unbalanced, we're not wholly dependent on the global city that is London.'
Council leaders in Liverpool argue there needs to be better transport links to other major cities to create a northern 'powerhouse'
Council leaders in Liverpool argue there needs to be better transport links to other major cities to create a northern 'powerhouse'
The One North report, compiled by cities including Machester (left) and Leeds (right), proposes a 125mph transpennine rail link aimed at cutting journey times between Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester

Labour Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson said the Government could not forget the North if it was serious about rebalancing the economy.
He told BBC Radio 4: 'When we talk about economic powerhouses, Manchester and Liverpool, if you just take those two cities in the North together, of course we are one economic powerhouse, it is just we haven't got the connectivity.'
He said £350 million was being invested in building a superport which will allow freight from the east to come directly to the UK.
Mr Anderson went on: 'We want the capacity, the ability to ship that freight further north, east and across to Hull and the Humber.
'It's right that if we are seriously talking about rebalancing the economy, that we have to create better connectivity between our northern cities.
'It will not only help northern cities, it will help the UK economy.'

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Mein Kampf Quotes

“There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election.”

  “The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.”

“He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.”

  To 'learn' history means to seek and find the forces which are the causes leading to those effects which we subsequently perceive as historical events.”

“To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as historical events. The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is inessential.”

“As opposed to this, we National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely, to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitled on this earth. And this action is the only one which, before God and our German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified.”
 
“German youth, do not forget that you are a German," and "Remember, little girl, that one day you must be a German mother.”  
 
“If the race is in danger of being oppressed or even exterminated the question of legality is only of secondary importance. The established power may in such a case employ only those means which are recognized as 'legal'. yet the instinct of self-preservation on the part of the oppressed will always justify, to the highest degree, the employment of all possible resources.”  
 
“A sound and energetic mind is only found in a sound and energetic body.”  
 
“Why could I not have been born a hundred years ago? I used to ask myself. Somewhere about the time of the Wars of Liberation, when a man was still of some value even though he had no ‘business.”  
 
“The Goddess of Fate clutched me in her hands and often threatened to smash me; but the will grew stronger as the obstacles increased, and finally the will triumphed.”  
 
“From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me.”  
 
“For by the word upstart I mean everyone who has raised himself through his own efforts to a social level higher than that to which he formerly belonged. In the case of such a person the hard struggle through which he passes often destroys his normal human sympathy. His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.”  
 
“Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain. On”  
 
“Generally, readers of the Press can be classified into three groups: First, those who believe everything they read; Second, those who no longer believe anything; Third, those who critically examine what they read and form their judgments accordingly.”  
 
“I can fight only for something that I love. I can love only what I respect. And in order to respect a thing I must at least have some knowledge of it.”  
 
“They refused to sing non-German songs. The greater the efforts made to win them away from their German allegiance, the more they exalted the glory of their German heroes. They stinted themselves in buying things to eat, so that they might spare their pennies to help the war chest of their elders. They were incredibly alert in the significance of what the non-German teachers said and they contradicted in unison. They wore the forbidden emblems of their own kinsfolk and were happy when penalized for doing so, or even physically punished. In miniature they were mirrors of loyalty from which the older people might learn a lesson.”  
 
“Few teachers realize that the purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of some dates and facts, that the student is not interested in knowing the exact date of a battle or the birthday of some marshal or other, and not at all—or at least only very insignificantly—interested in knowing when the crown of his fathers was placed on the brow of some monarch. These are certainly not looked upon as important matters. To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as”  
 
“Nature knows no political frontiers. She begins by establishing life on this globe and then watches the free play of forces. Those who show the greatest courage and industry are the children nearest to her heart, and they will be granted the sovereign right of existence.”  
 
“To truly “learn” history means to open your eyes and discover the forces that cause historical events to happen. The art of reading and of learning means remembering the important parts and forgetting the unimportant.”  
 
“To truly “learn” history means to open your eyes and discover the forces that cause historical events to happen. The art of reading and of learning means remembering the important parts and forgetting the unimportant.”  
 
“In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?”  
 
 
“Ich las damals unendlich viel und zwar gründlich. In wenigen Jahren schuf ich mir damit die Grundlagen eines Wissens, von denen ich auch heute noch zehre.”  
 

― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf