"Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?"

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Source : Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

Maxine Kumin

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“We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3
“For us women, to be German meant, and still means, always to be strong.”
“A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.”

Source : Edwin Louis Cole (1982). “Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival”, Whitaker Distribution
“When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.”
“Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.413, Macmillan
“Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.”
“Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the dashboard. "We're supposed to be a diversion," Jonah said. "Got to make an entrance. Can't do that in a minivan, Giganto Boy. Can't do much in a minivan except look about as uncool as it gets." "Hey! My dad drives a minivan." "Snap.”
“I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.”

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