"The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude."

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Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1941). “Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot”

Joseph Hertz

#Gratitude Quotes #Winning Quotes #Israel Quotes

“I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.”
“A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.”
“I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.”

Source : Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”
“Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.”
“It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.”
“It's always fun to do the fight sequences and then to complete them, because some of them are quite complicated - with guns and so on - and there's always things that can go wrong. It's fun to shoot those things because we rehearse them very strenuously. It's fun to shoot them, and fun to know they're finished, that they're in the can so to speak.”
“Caffeine. The gateway drug.”

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