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In describing how Sigmund Freud could not experience joy, “What an irony it is that in German freude means joy.”
"Spiritual Evolution" by George Vaillant - Five Stars Great Book 2008
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In 1938, Hitler opened the state-funded Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, which was to produce the KdF-wagen (kraft durch freude, meaning "strength through joy").
Log of the LOGOs 2008
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In 1938, Hitler opened the state-funded Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, which was to produce the KdF-wagen (kraft durch freude, meaning "strength through joy").
Log of the LOGOs 2008
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This performance was recorded two weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the word "freude" (joy) was changed to "freiheit" (freedom) for the occasion, making it the Ode to Freedom:
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Schaden and freude have never gotten along so famously.
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Sadly, schaden-freude types like Ms. Kour missed out completely on “the best part” - the very newsworthy and controversial item that apparently more than counsel for CRA wanted to bury.
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And Allison grew an ever-thicker skin, clinging to the freude and eschewing the schaden .
Internet Famous: Julia Allison and the Secrets of Self-Promotion 2008
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We shall see what the on going coded messages of the two-night Clinton-freude-fest yields after the convention.
Connie Allenbury: Fear And Loathing and Catharsis On The Campaign Trail Of Tears 2008
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And Allison grew an ever-thicker skin, clinging to the freude and eschewing the schaden .
Internet Famous: Julia Allison and the Secrets of Self-Promotion 2008
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Let DealBook stipulate that when things were looking seriously grim in private equity land a few years back, there was a palpable sense of Schwarzman-freude out there on Wall
Blackstone's Centro Bid Shows Schwarzman's Real Estate Muscle - NYTimes.com 2010
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