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

— Israel Zangwill

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

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Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled.

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

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.

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