"My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor."

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Chantal Akerman

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“Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.”

Source : "The English Patient". Book by Anthony Minghella, 1996.
“The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.”
“Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.”

Source : Doris Egan @AtheistQOTD, twitter.com. March 11, 2012.
“There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.”
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
“Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.”
“I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.”

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