"It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war."

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Sholom Aleichem

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Gun Quotes

“The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off.”
“Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.”
“Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.”
“I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.”
“Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.”
“We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.”

Source : "Mark Twain, Then and Now, and the Invention of ‘Hispanic’". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2004.
“Diva has a negative connotation.”

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