Weizsäcker was elected as President of West Germany and took office on 1 July 1984. Weizsäcker, who was known as a great speaker, delivered his most famous speech in 1985, marking the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe on 8th May 1945. He articulated the historic responsibility of Germany and Germans for the crimes ...
1951-01-31 Stuttgart, Germany / There is no Subtitute / Es gibt keinen Ersatz / Não há Substituto / No hay Sustituto
Owning a Porsche 911 has always been my childhood dream. With age, people become more pragmatic and less likely to listen to their childhood dreams. Only 6% of people still manage and are engaged in what inspired them in childhood. Ferdinand Porsche showed a strong aptitude for mechanical work at a very early age. He attended classes at the Imperial Technical School at ...
A universe inside You / Ein Universum in Dir / Um universo dentro de Você / Un universo dentro de Ti
Somehow part of the package of being a living, thinking being is that you get a universe inside of you. You get a galaxy sized object inside you that you can access. And there there are the mountains, the rivers, the jungles, the dynastic families, the ruins, the planets, the works of arts, the poetry, ...
What did you Forget / Was hast du vergessen / O que você Esqueceu / Qué Olvidaste
You know, you can always bug people in a beautiful way - in a very helpful way - by just saying to them, 'What did you forget ?' They say, 'Well, I don’t know. Was I supposed to remember?' 'I’m really not trying to put you on. I mean, it’s not difficult; this is something completely ...
Remembrance Day / Tag des Gedenkens / Dia da Lembrança / Giorno della Memoria
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an international memorial day on 27th of January commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during the Second World War. It commemorates the genocide that resulted in the death of 6 million Jewish people, 5 million Slavs, 3 million Poles, 2000.000 Romani people, 250.000 mentally and physically disabled, and 9.000 homosexual men by the Nazi regime and ...
Eyes on the Road / Augen auf die Straße / Olhos na estrada / Ojos en el Camino
Today, nine people will not come home as a result of distracted driving. More than 1,000 people will have been injured because they or someone else did not pay attention behind the wheel. Keep your hands on the wheel, your eyes on the road and your mind on driving. There are three main types of distractions. The ...
Doing Nothing / Nichts Tun / Fazendo Nada / Haciendo Nada
In a hypermodern Society propelled by the twin engines of acceleration and excess, doing nothing is equated with waste, laziness, lack of ambition, boredom or down time. But this betrays an instrumental aspect of Human existence. Spiritual and philosophical systems suggest that detaching from daily concerns and spending time in simple reflection and contemplation are essential to ...
1554-01-25 Sao Paulo, Brazil / Ready for Business / Bereit fürs Geschäft / Pronto para Negócio / Listo para Negocios
São Paulo is considered the financial capital of Brazil, as it is the location for the headquarters of major corporations, of banks and financial institutions. São Paulo is Brazil's highest GDP city and the 10th largest in the World. São Paulo 's economy is going through a deep transformation. Once a city with a strong industrial character, the economy has followed ...
Flowers of Evil / Blumen des Bösen / Flores do mal / Fleurs du Mal
Self-interest is the most obvious reason for you to act like a hypocrite. Your personal cost is enough to outweigh the intention to act morally. You want to act fairly until you are put on the spot and are facing your own personal consequences. You are like a special type of liar who puts extra effort into disguising ...
Finding your Truth / Deine Wahrheit Finden / Encontrando sua Verdade / Encontrando tu Verdad
Whether you identify yourself as struggling with addiction or not, as Humans, we are all confronted with the painful experience of separation. Times when you feel alone and disconnected from your essence. By being able to accept these experiences and by having compassion for yourself when you are feeling them, allows you to go through them ...
2008-01-22 New York , USA / The dark Knight / Der dunkle Ritter / O cavaleiro Trevas / El caballero Oscuro
Heath Ledger told Sarah Lyall that his recently completed role in 'The Dark Knight' (2008) had taken a toll on his ability to sleep: 'Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. ... I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.' At that time, he told Lyall that he had taken ...
Down with Love / Zum Teufel mit der Liebe / Abaixo o Amor / Abajo el Amor
Men value freedom. Women seek honesty. Why should men and women try to please one another? For Love’s sake. The World of Love is an easily solved mystery of emotional giving and receiving. What Love we have given we will have forever. What Love we fail to give is lost for all eternity. - Leo ...
1942-01-20 Berlin, Germany / Final Solution / Endlösung / Solução Final / Solución Final
The plans to exterminate all the Jews of Europe was formalized at the Wannsee Conference, held at an SS guesthouse near Berlin, on 20th January 1942. The conference was chaired by Heydrich and attended by 15 senior officials of the Nazi Party and the German government. Most of those attending were representatives of the Interior Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, and ...
A time you’ve never Known / Eine Zeit, die du nie gekannt hast / Um tempo que você nunca Conheceu / Un tiempo que nunca has Conocido
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley Looking at old photos, it is hard not to feel a kind of wanderlust - a pang of nostalgia, for times you have never experienced. To sit on the side of the road and watch the locals passing by. Who lived and died before ...
What is wrong with our Culture / Was ist falsch mit unserer Kultur / O que está errado com a nossa Cultura / Qué está mal con nuestra Cultura
Why is it that we don’t seem to be able to adjust ourselves to the physical environment without destroying it? Why is it that in a way this culture represents in a unique fashion the law of diminishing returns. That our success is a failure. That we are building up in other words, an enormous ...
You can always find a better Job / Du kannst immer einen besseren Job Finden / Você sempre pode encontrar um emprego Melhor / Siempre puedes encontrar un mejor Trabajo
Life is too short to be unhappy at work. The drive to achieve goals and further your career pushes you to be and do your best. But when ambition is coupled with hypercompetitiveness and a single-minded focus on winning, you get into trouble. You become blind to the impact of your actions on yourself and others; relationships ...
1969-01-16 Prague, Czechoslovakia / Burning Bush / Brennender Busch / Sarça Ardente / Zarza Ardiente
The fight for freedom, for moral principles, self-sacrifice and protest in those desperate times led to the moral unification of a repressed nation, which twenty years later defeated the totalitarian regime. The anniversary of Jan Palach’s death inspired a new generation of students to start protests that led to the eventual fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, ...
We can Change / Wir können es Ändern / Nós podemos Mudar / Podemos Cambiar
We can change. But we can not just snap our fingers and say goodbye to our well-established patterns, even when those patterns result in bad consequences. We wish it could be easier. We do not change just because someone (even ourselves) wants us to. 'It is too hard, it is not in our DNA, it requires excessive ...
1957-01-14 Los Angeles, USA / The sea is a Sanctuary / Das Meer ist ein Heilgtum / O mar é um Santuário / El mar es un Santuario
Bogart met Lauren Bacall while filming 'To Have and Have Not' (1944), a loose adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel. When they met, Bacall was 19 and Bogart 44. He nicknamed her 'Baby'. She had been a model since 16 and had acted in two failed plays. Bogart was drawn to Bacall's high cheekbones, green eyes, tawny blond hair, and lean body, as well ...
People are the key to a Place / Menschen sind der Schlüssel zu einem Ort / Pessoas são a chave para um Lugar / Personas son la clave de un Lugar
You have seen rolling desert dunes, beautiful mountains castles, stunning canyons with clear rivers and spent time at some of the World’s most amazing architecture but it is the local people that stay with you the most; in your memory and in your heart. It is the images you have captured of deep meaningful faces, the ...
1750-01-13 São Miguel das Missões, Brazil / Gabriel’s Oboe / In My Fantasy / Em minha Fantasia / Nella Fantasia
The Mission is based on events surrounding the Spanish - Portuguese treaty of 1750 or 'Treaty of Madrid'. The document was signed in the Spanish capital by Ferdinand VI of Spain and John V of Portugal on 13th January 1750. Spain ceded part of Jesuit Paraguay to Portugal, to end to the armed conflict between the Spanish and Portuguese empires in South America. The 'Treaty of Madrid' was significant because ...
Cosmic Principles / Kosmische Prinzipien / Princípios Cósmicos / Principios Cósmicos
Life has always been tough for you. You needed to fight harder than others. You never got what you want. And the harder you try, the worse it gets. You wonder if it has to be this way. You have tried journaling, meditation, affirmations, morning rituals, goal setting techniques, and inspirational quotes. No matter how hard you ...
2013-01-11 New York, USA / You can make a Difference / Du kannst einen Unterschied Machen / Você pode fazer a Diferença / Tu puedes hacer la Diferencia
I feel very strongly, that it is not enough to just live in the World as it is and just take what you are given, to follow the things that adults told you to do … and that Society tells you to do. I think you should always be questioning. I take this very scientific attitude ...
This is not a Lecture / Dies ist keine Vorlesung / Isto não é uma Conferência / Esto no es una Conferencia
This is not a lecture. Nor is it a form of entertainment. We are going to talk over together in conversation about the whole of our existence from the moment we are born till we die. In that period of time, whether it be 50 years or 90 years or 100 years, we go through all ...
Turn promises into Reality / Verwandle Versprechen in Realität / Transformar promessas em Realidade / Convierte promesas en Realidad
More than 90% of all children are enrolled in school, even in developing countries. Thanks to digitalization we are more interconnected with each other than ever before. Knowledge and ideas flow throughout the World and transcend all previous boundaries. At the same time, the World is younger than ever. Almost half of the World’s population is younger ...