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Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.
Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander
Balls
Cannons
Prussia
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War is the national industry of Prussia.
Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau / Historian
War
Industry
Prussia
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
Sophocles / Playwright
Truth
Prussia
Understanding
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Our work is to present things that are as they are.
Frederick The Great / Military Commander
Prussia
Writing
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In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
Frederick The Great / Military Commander
Focus
Prussia
Trying
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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great / Military Commander
Government
Philosopher
Prussia
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We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.
Frederick Ii, Holy Roman Emperor /
War
Prussia
Sovereign
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
Frank Norris / Novelist
Beauty
Truth
Fades
Giving
Immortal
Perpetual
Prussia
Truth Is
Away
Gives
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To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.
Franz Grillparzer / Writer
People
Prussia
Support
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For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
Kelly Miller / Mathematician
Europe
Prominent
Prussia
Reign
Frederick
Germanic
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My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.
Frederick The Great / Military Commander
Agreement
People
Prussia
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Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it
Otto Von Bismarck / Statesman
Kings
Prussia
Revolution
Suffering
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The Great / Military Commander
Sad
Truth
Diversity
Next
Pleasure
Prussia
Greatest
World New Old
Discover
Off
Noblest
Prejudices
Shake
Truths
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Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.
Ferdinand Lassalle / Political Figure
Last Year
Prussia
Avoid
Declare
Heartily
Misunderstandings
Napoleon
Pamphlet
Wished
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King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would seal the alliance between the two powers.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Amber
Chamber
Magnificent
Prussia
Royal
Royal Family
Alliance
Conceived
Frederick
Powers
Seal
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The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.
Marie Antoinette / Queen Of France
France
Mischief
Neighbor
Prussia
Sea
Innately
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It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.
Frederick The Great / Military Commander
Army
Foundation
Prussia
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Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Men
Country
Prussia
Rapture
Love Man Feel
Affections
Dearest
Describe
Loves
How Much
Poets
Whilst
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The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.
Kelly Miller / Mathematician
Allies
Belgium
East
Effort
Invasion
Prussia
Russia
Victory
West
Began
Counteract
Efforts
Immediate
Measure
Offset
Victories
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Even at its most powerful, Britain always needed alliances with other European states. There would almost certainly have been no British victory at Waterloo, for instance, without the assistance of Prussia.
Linda Colley / Historian
Assistance
Instance
Most Powerful
Prussia
Waterloo
Alliance
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It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.
Lord Chesterfield / British Statesman
Kings
Mad
Prussia
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My grandmother on my father's side, a nightclub singer, was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who ended up in Jerusalem, where she met my grandfather - a British army officer. I remember as a child having bowls of chicken soup made by her. There were lots of interesting components, like feet and necks.
Jamie Cullum / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Bowls
British
Components
Feet
Grandfather
Interesting
Jerusalem
Necks
Prussia
Refugee
Soup
Jewish
Lots
Side
Chicken
Ended
Singer
Met
Nightclub
Officer
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Two centuries ago, when our nation lost its sovereignty and was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria, Polish Romantics like the poet and nationalist Adam Mickiewicz declared that independence would come only with great sacrifice. Ever since, this myth of the martyr, or messianic victim, has emerged during times of national crisis.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Independence
Adam
Austria
Crisis
Lost
Martyr
Myth
Polish
Prussia
Russia
Sovereignty
Victim
Since
Among
Centuries
Nation
Emerged
Romantics
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