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The Past: Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

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Israel Zangwill
Age: 62 †
Born: 1864
Born: February 14
Died: 1926
Died: August 1
Activist
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London
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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
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O God... make me a child again, even before I die give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.
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Selfishness is the only real atheism.
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How full and rich a world Theirs to inhabit is-- Sweet scent of grass and bloom, Playmates' glad symphony, Cool touch of western wind, Sunshine's divine caress. How should they know or feel They are in darkness? But, oh, the miracle! If a Redeemer came, Laid finger on their eyes-- One touch and what a world, New-born in loveliness!
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Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own.
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In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
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The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.
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America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
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New York is the great stone desert.
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Let us start a new religion with one commandment, Enjoy thyself.
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[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.
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No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
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It takes two men to make one brother.
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The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.
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Dead men hear no tales posthumous fame is an Irish bull.
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