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It is only little men and creatures low in the scale of organization who never change.

— Israel Zangwill

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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Children of the Ghetto (1892)

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled.

Children of the Ghetto (1892)

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Oh, for the simple life,
For tents and starry skies!

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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