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“I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'”
Source : "A few words from Richard Jeni". www.cnn.com. March 12, 2007.
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“You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.”
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“Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.”
Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
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“Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks”
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“Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.”
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“When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.”
Source : "Christian's Mistake" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (p. 64), 1865.
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“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
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“Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.”