"The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached."

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Source : Amos Elon (2003). “The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933”

Amos Elon

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“Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.”
“Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.”

Source : Sir Leslie Stephen (2016). “Studies of a Biographer”, p.462, Library of Alexandria
“When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'”

Source : YouTube Channel "peta2TV"/"Casey Affleck's Banned 'Go Vegan' PSA", www.peta2.com. February 06, 2013.
“Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.115
“Love means the courage to expose yourself to the potential pains of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.”
“Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.”

Source : "Might is Right". Book by Ragnar Redbeard, Chapter 6: Love, and Women, and War, 2, 1890.
“I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.”
“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,â€ Chiron said. â€œAnd perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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