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The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

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Israel Zangwill
Age: 62 †
Born: 1864
Born: February 14
Died: 1926
Died: August 1
Activist
Comedian
Journalist
Novelist
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Writer
London
England
Israel
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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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New York is the great stone desert.
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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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You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
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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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It takes two men to make one brother.
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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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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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Dead men hear no tales posthumous fame is an Irish bull.
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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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There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.
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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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Let us start a new religion with one commandment, Enjoy thyself.
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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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As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.
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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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Selfishness is the only real atheism.
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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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[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.
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