"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the US would veto it and Britain and France would abstain." Amos Oz | |
"We, the soldiers who have returned from battles stained with blood; we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes; we who have attended their funerals and cannot look in the eyes of their parents; we who have come from a land where parents bury their children; we who have fought against you, the Palestinians-we say to you today, in a loud and a clear voice: enough of blood and tears. Enough." Yitzhak Rabin 1922-1995 | |
"My God is the green tide in the spring leaves William of Ockham 1290-1349 Ockham's Razor appeared in the recent Warner Brothers movie Contact. | |
"The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few." Afif Safieh | |
"For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways." Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17–9 | |
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not." Georgia O’Keeffe | |
"The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the middle of it, you say to yourself, “Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.” And the sign that something’s wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure." Thornton Wilder | |
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things and to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who don't enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight which knows no success, nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt |
"Aich hayynu golshim al ha galim ve hayam haya kolkach kachol, bazricha haprayyt, she haruach dromit, ve hashemesh kadur anak agol, ve hamayym assuyym krystal, shkufim, efshar et haslayym lirot... ve hashkyyah... ve acharkach yotziim levalot..." Mashina | |
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"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am citizen of the world. If my theory is proven to be untrue, then France will say that I am a German, and Germany will say that I am a Jew." Albert Einstein |
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"When two great powers disagree about anything -- it doesn't matter what -- they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war." Bertrand Russell, --March, 1963 |
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"Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support." Tom Cruise, --January, 1990 |
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"Three words and you were on the floor because their breath would wither your face. There was no surviving rabbi breath." Mel Brooks, --February, 1975 |
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"I've always been aware that this is a very gossamer thing that we have here--life itself. Life is a precious thing that can disappear in a moment. We're all very capable of fucking up our own lives." Tom Hanks, --March, 1989 |
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"The sex scenes were ludicrous. Do you have sex like that? Do you know women who have orgasms from these anatomically impossible positions? Please. In two minutes? Send them over to my house so I can learn." Sharon Stone, --December, 1992 |
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"My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time." Sammy Davis Jr., --December, 1966 |
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"I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'" Robin Williams, --January, 1992 |
