Edith Hahn Beer Quotes
We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children’s service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother—a working woman, dependent on her help—feared the maid.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
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The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!
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I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
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Jesus loved me and I knew not why. And I loved Him because He quickened my spirit to heights beyond my stature, and to depths beyond my sounding. Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.
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Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said - of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
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HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.
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I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.
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Social media stars are kind of taking the traditional route, like movies.
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I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America's future.
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I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.
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A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.
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I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
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We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children’s service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother—a working woman, dependent on her help—feared the maid.
