"It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run."

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Source : Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

Mary Antin

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“I've learned a lot just being able to see things clearer.”
“MTV has turned more young women into ***** than poverty.”
“Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.”
“The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Electing Sudan to the U.N. body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a womenâ€™s shelter.”
“True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.”
“As Albert Camus wrote, the doctorâ€™s role is as a witness â€“ to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction... The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.”
“The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.”

Source : "Bob Farrell's 10 Rules For Investing" by Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. December 4, 200.

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