"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."

-- Walter Lippmann

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“There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.”

Source : "A Chameleon on Show" by Benjamin Ivry, forward.com. January 12, 2011.
“Too many people are surfing the web and trying to figure out the politics of getting a movie made or taking meetings and trying to get someone to read something instead of creating a truly great script, because something great has a great chance of getting made, but something average that you've sort of talked people into reading doesn't have as good a shot.”
“Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.”
“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”
“I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.”

Source : "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, First Day, Novel VIII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
“When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to any place at all. . . . The effort not to stop the mind in just one place - this is discipline. Not stopping the mind is object and essence. Put it nowhere and it will be everywhere. Even in moving the mind outside the body, if it is sent in one direction, it will be lacking in nine others. If the mind is not restricted to just one direction, it will be in all ten.”
“Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.”

Source : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics
“The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.”

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