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“I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.”

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Book:Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators

Source: Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators

“What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.”

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Book:Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]

Source: Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]

“I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father [John Kenneth Galbraith]. The leading economists of the Austrian school- including von Hayek and von Haberler - returned for the occasion. And so my father took a moment to reflect on the economic triumphs of the Austrian Republic since the war, which, he said, "would not have been possible without the contribution of these men." They nodded - briefly - until it dawned on them what he meant. They'd all left the country in the 1930s.”

“THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that list - no money, no place on the list. I was told this by a Dr Schwartz, in Vienna; he had paid in diamonds to save his wife”

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Author:Emilie Schindler

“I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.”

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Author:Karl von Frisch

“I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.”

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Author:Karl von Frisch

“THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new translation, Anthea Bell perfectly captures Stefan Zweig’s glorious evocation of a lost world, Vienna’s golden age, in which he grew up and flourished.”

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Author:Ronald Harwood

“The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.”

Speak Wish Cities Dear Vienna

Author:Adolf Loos

“And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.”

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Author:Alfred Schnittke

“There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.”

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Author:Terry Eagleton

“You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.”

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School.”

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Author:Webster Tarpley

“Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public.”

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Author:Frederic Chopin

“In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the occurrences in unhappy Vienna alone would have been sufficient to cause international proscription, but in 1938 the world conscience was silent or merely muttered surlily before it forgot and forgave.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.”

Six Married Treated Flight Psychoanalysis Vienna

Author:Erica Jong

“From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.”

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Book:The Most of George Burns

Source: The Most of George Burns

“From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.”

Play Conductor Vienna

Author:Bernard Arnault

“1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.”

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Author:Leon Askin

“I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.”

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Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

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