"The Nazi murder squads just wouldn't waste a bullet on a child. I just couldn't process that. I couldn't handle it."

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Source : "Kaplinsky's tears over family secret". Interview in Metro, p. 23, August 28, 2007.

Natasha Kaplinsky

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“Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.”
“He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.”
“When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.”
“What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.”

Source : Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.142, Pan Macmillan
“American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the Ã± of Ã± the historical customs, religious customs.”
“Iâ€™d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.”
“I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.”
“Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.”

Source : Henry Christopher Wallich (1960). “The Cost of Freedom: Conservatism and Modern Capitalism”

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