To make oneself an object to make oneself passive is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

The only shame is to have none.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

This is not writing at all. Indeed I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether if I knew what I meant.

'It's okay' is a cosmic truth.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many many months successively without being at any ball of any description and no material injury accrue either to body or mind, but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been though slightly felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

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