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"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect jewish lives." »Albert Einstein
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"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old." »Jean Kerr
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"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens." »Ethel Barrymore
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"Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so." »Mark Twain
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"I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All national institutions of churches, whether jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." »Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason"
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"All national institutions of churches, whether jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." »Thomas Paine
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"If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before." »Mitchell Burgess
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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it." »Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
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"I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day" »David Grayson
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"When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year." »William Jefferson Clinton
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"Leading the jewish people is not easy-we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp-wittedness and polemics to a very high level." »Shimon Peres
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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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"Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out." »Manley E. Rogers
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"Here is a great body of our jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens." »Woodrow Wilson
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"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." »Martin Niemller
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"For example, in year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g
j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld." »Mark Twain, "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"
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"There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." »Mark Twain
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"First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the jewish people, for ever and ever." »Benjamin Netanyahu
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"IMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999." »Steve Jobs
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"You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time." »George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
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"Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it." »Josiah Gilbert Holland
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"Not every new year will be new unless we do something new!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other." »Unknown
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"Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year." »Danish proverb
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"Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year." »Dan Quayle
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." »Lillian Hellman
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"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." »Oprah Winfrey
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