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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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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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
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Religion lives not by the force and aid of dogma, but because it is ingrained in the nature of man. ...the moulds have been broken and reconstructed over and over again, but the molten ore abides in the ladle of humanity.
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We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.
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Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.
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Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.
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After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again.
