"You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..."

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Source : Israel Zangwill (2015). “The Melting Pot”, p.38, Israel Zangwill

Israel Zangwill

#Thinking Quotes #Islands Quotes #Race Quotes

“This is the law: Every thing existing on the physical plane is an exteriorization of thought, which must be balanced through the one who issued the thought, and in accordance with that one's responsibility, at the conjunction of time, condition, and place.”

Source : "Thinking and Destiny" by Harold Percival, Ch. 2, (p. 28), 1946.
“The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.”
“Children and fools speak true.”
“Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.”
“I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.”
“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.”
“Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.”
“In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.”

Source : Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1766). “Letters, Written by the Late Jonathan Swift ... and Several of His Friends: From the Year 1703-to 1740. Published from the Originals; with Notes Explanatory and Historical”, p.117

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