"You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew."

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Sholom Aleichem

“Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.”
“There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.”
“silence was the first prayer I learned to trust ...”
“When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.”
“Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.”

Source : Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”
“All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.”
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”

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