"I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view."

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Source : Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media

Walter Kohn

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“The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.”
“Do not fear the challenges of life, but approach them patiently, with faith in God. He will reward your faith with power not only to endure, but also to overcome hardships, disappointments, trials, and struggles of daily living. Through diligently striving to live the law of God and with faith in Him, we will not be diverted from our eternal course.”
“There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.”
“The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; theres no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.”
“I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).”
“Iâ€™d really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.”
“It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.”
“For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.”

Source : Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.16, AK Press

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