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Small: To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mer
"To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
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Small: The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures the unselfish and the intelligent may begi
"The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
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Small: It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine
"It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
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Small: A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
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Small: Racism is mans gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: Mans sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the serva
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: It is not enough for me to ask question I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm d
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: The road to the sacred leads through the secular
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"The road to the sacred leads through the secular"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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Small: We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat
"We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board
"Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National
"I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to
"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organiz
"After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: We have tried you citizens we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers,
"We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matter
"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearab
"But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls
"Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more
"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship
"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting
"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unio
"All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also
"You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, emp
"Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
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Small: Well, I think one doesnt really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is spe
Daniel Libeskind
"Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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Small: We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred
Daniel Libeskind
"We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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Small: There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting.
Daniel Libeskind
"There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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Small: Its about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy
Daniel Libeskind
"It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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Small: I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as
Daniel Libeskind
"I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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Small: And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Li
Daniel Libeskind
"And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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Small: Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a
Daniel Libeskind
"Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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Small: Its a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker
Daniel Libeskind
"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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Small: Im not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains
Daniel Libeskind
"I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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