The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
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...Before considering the question that is seemingly always the most immediate one and the only urgent one, What shall we do we ponder this How must we think For thinking is genuine activity, genuine taking a hand, if to take a hand means to lend a hand to...the coming to presence of Being.
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