"Zionism, like other self-determination movements..."

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Ruth Wisse

#Determination Quotes #Israel Quotes #Self Quotes

“The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.”
“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.”
“You can plant a dream.”
“Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.”
“There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.”
“We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.”

Source : John Sherman (1879). “Selected Speeches and Reports on Finance and Taxation, from 1859 to 1878”
“Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.”
“A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.”

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