"The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer."

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Source : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

Diana Trilling

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“I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.”
“As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.”
“Selling five million units in less than 14 months means DS is the fastest among any game machines ever launched in Japan to hit that level. To achieve this rapid growth, we were required not only to go after frequent game players, but to reel back people who had left games and to make video games enjoyable for those who had not played games at all.”
“Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.”

Source : Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.41, Rowman & Littlefield
“Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.”
“I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.”
“Everyone feels fear. What a samurai or warrior is, is what you do when you feel fear.”
“You are only as young as your spine is flexible.”

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