"I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it."

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Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.

Abraham Pais

#War Quotes #Lying Quotes #Silly Quotes

“It takes a great client to create great architecture.”
“We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment”
“The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.”
“We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.”
“Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin...”
“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control â€” in prison or jail, on probation or parole â€” than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men are either under correctional control or branded felons and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.”

Source : "Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 16, 2012.
“The porcupine, which one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved.”
“Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.”

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

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