Bel Kaufman Quotes
To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: “First comes health. You can always hang yourself later."

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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.
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I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.
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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
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Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
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I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.
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The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
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I am an organization freak!
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With the consent of the people, I will seek to continue service in Congress for the well-being of our state and our nation.
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The desire to collect information on customers is not new for Target or any other large retailer, of course. For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who regularly walks into one of its stores.
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I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
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Profiting from being in the minority leads to interesting paradoxes. Rather diabolically, if all traders use the same set of rules, they will end up doing the same thing at the same time and cannot therefore be in the minority.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.
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By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.
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To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: “First comes health. You can always hang yourself later."