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and he became a communist. He was court-martialed but allowed to resign from the army. In the revolutions of 1848 he fought to overthrow his king and, failing, fled to America. There he became first a carpenter and then the editor of a German-language newspaper in Cincinnati with a slant so leftist he earned the nickname "Reddest of the Red." When the Civil War came, Willich recruited fifteen hundred Cincinnati Germans within a matter of hours and helped organize the Ninth Ohio-now marching with the XIV Corps. — Steven E. Woodworth

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman. — Julie Delpy

We were in recycling before recycling was cool. — Anthony Pratt

Excellence is inconveniently difficult. — William H Gass

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other. — Nick Harkaway

My heart just keeps getting bigger and bigger. — Mariska Hargitay

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.' ... I think I'm the greatest, anyway. — Iggy Pop

It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The bible is foreign to me, but its concepts are not. My father always said that hatred is a waste and never an option. He learned this growing up in Ahwaz, Iran, in a Muslim household. I have tried my best to pass the same message to my children, born and raised in the United States. Ultimately, it doesn't matter where we learn that lesson. It's just important that we do. — Firoozeh Dumas