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“Deir Yassin massacre was not only necessary, but without it the state of Israel could not have emerged.”
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“The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.”
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“You are not in business to be popular.”
Source : "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler (p. 4), February 23, 2001.
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“Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.”
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“Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.”
Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.182
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“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.”
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“I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.”
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“As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."”
