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Before the fall of Communism and German unification, West Germany had a saying: “Bonn ist nicht Weimar.”
From Salon ● May 18, 2026
But this year, in addition to people slinking to trance and grilling bratwurst in back yards, several thousand people gathered in Kreuzberg and nearby Friedrichshain with a new mantra: “Unser Kiez, nicht ihr Profit!”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2019
Almost invariably, I think of something the physicist Wolfgang Pauli supposedly once said: “Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch!”
From Scientific American ● May 29, 2018
Thinking about Germany’s political situation over the past days, an old German saying has kept coming back to me: “aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben”—to put something off is not to cancel it.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2017
Then he stuttered, “Aber...but are you nicht in Belgium? The officer, the auto, they were not coming? Your escape was not working?”
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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