Irena Sendler Quotes
After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.
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I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.
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If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.
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'I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me,' I said. 'I want to be myself.''Don’t be a child.'I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. 'What?''You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I’m tired of your whining.'
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Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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(imitating Norman Bates) Mother, are you there? I love you! I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel!
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
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It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.
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I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
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Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in the aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, Cries protest to the Powers that made the world. A protest that is also a prophecy.
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A healthy, vital society is not one in which we all agree. It is one in which those who disagree can do so with honor and respect for other people's opinions... and an appreciation of our shared humanity.
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You grow up... you spend five years rooming with each other, and you're going to get sick of each other at times. And you're going to have some good times as well.
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After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again.
