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Most of my family was killed. All of my father's and mother's sisters and brothers and their children, my sister and my old grandfather, they're all gone. Four out of five Jews in Holland never came back after the war — 80 percent.

— Abraham Pais To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)

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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes — even in a scientific text.

A Tale of Two Continents (1997)

Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite.

Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988)

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture.

To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

Subtle is the Lord (1982)

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