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“You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.”
Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.16, Courier Corporation
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“When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy”
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“I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.”
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“We believe that business can be a tool for social good.”
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“I'm really fascinated by how the mob ethos permeates places like Las Vegas and Chicago. I have the book set in Las Vegas and Chicago for pretty specific reasons, some of which are that in both cases the mob history has become a tourist attraction - I'm actually doing a book signing in Las Vegas at The Mob Museum, which I am positively giddy about! - and I find that especially unusual. If you don't call these people "the Mafia" they're just a band of psychopaths killing people for profoundly dumb reasons.”
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“The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.”
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“Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's consciences; they therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to tell the truth.”
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“He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.”
Source : Poul Anderson (2015). “Starfarers”, p.483, Open Road Media
