Uri Shulevitz Quotes
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
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Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
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English is not my first language.
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Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.
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America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.
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Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
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It was many and many a year ago,In a District styled E. C.,That a monster dwelt whom I came to knowBy the name of Cannibal Flea,And the brute was possessed with no other thoughtThan to live - and to live on me.
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I will offer a prayer to the Trinity, May the Eternal grant me to praise thee! In the present course, dangerous Our work; destruction is a slight impulse of wrath. They reckon of the saints a tribe, King of heaven, may I be eloquent about thee! Before the separation of my soul from my flesh.
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In a sense the present work is to be regarded as a secondary-study of the work of a group of writers in the field of social theory. But the genus 'secondary study' comprises several species; of these an example of only one, and that perhaps not the best known, is to be found in these pages.
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How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it. Yet evidently the true object of education, now as ever, is to develop the capabilities of the head and of the heart.
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I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity or anybody, you know. I just think of myself as doing something that I love to do.
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I'd love to talk with Martin Luther King, just to hear his voice up close and be with someone who had such faith. He had such power.
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I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.
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Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
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To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.
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Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.
