Ari Shavit Quotes
At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
Ari Shavit
Quotes to Explore
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
Leonard Susskind
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
S. I. Hayakawa
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The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
Bruce Sterling
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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
Sophocles
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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Because of dissociation, many victims are able to remember the abuse only when a certain object, smell, color, scene, or experience triggers a sudden, severe reaction. During a flashback one seems to see, feel, hear, smell, or taste something from the past as if it were actually happening in the present. In a visual flashback, you actually see the scene of your abuse, or you may see an object or image that reminds you or is symbolic of your abuse.
Beverly Engel
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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.
Keith Donohue
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The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
Wallace Stegner
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As a challenger, I need and want to fight some people because that would give me the opportunity to get to the title shot.
Francis Ngannou
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At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
Ari Shavit
