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Thomas Cahill

"The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of us, Jew and Gentile, believer and aethiest, tick. Without the Jews, we would see the world through different eyes, hear with different ears, even feel with different feelings ... we would think with a different mind, interpret all our experience differently, draw different conclusions from the things that befall us. And we would set a different course for our lives."

Source : "The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels". Book by Thomas Cahill, 1998.

Thomas Cahill

#Mean Quotes #Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a personâ€™s life on this earth. I donâ€™t mean that we all end up dead, thatâ€™s not the great pity. I mean that he couldnâ€™t tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldnâ€™t tell him what was real.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.9, Macmillan
“Speeding is like drugs. It makes everything come at you fast, and when you go back to normal driving, safe driving, prudent driving, it seems boring. That's the danger of drugs. At first it's intoxicating, but then the rest of your life you're trying to find that very first time. It never is the same.”
“We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.”
“So my father [Erwin Rommel] decided during the battle in Normandy, he knew really soon that it wasn't possible to win this battle. But my father decided pretty soon to, if necessary, to surrender on his own responsibility when the British or Americans penetrate the German positions.”
“democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.”

Source : ANNE STEVENSON “A RELATIVE STRANGER\”
“I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.”

Source : "Stella McCartney: 'Fashion people are pretty heartless'". Interview With Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2009.
“'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.”
“At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.”

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