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With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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