"Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us."

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Maurice Samuel

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“But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.”
“My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."”
“Truth will only make you unpopular.”
“A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.”
“The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.”
“Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.”
“There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.”
“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it”

Source : Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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