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You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses. ↗

— Mary Antin

#children #did #down #examining #heard

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose. ↗

— Mary Antin

#children #examined #heart #heavy #jewish

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. ↗

— Joyce Appleby

#avoid #contention #creating #discourses #inseparable

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#best #boston #especially #even #few

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death. ↗

— Michel Aoun

#death #deprived #existence #freedom #kind

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#acquisition #although #been #century #chinese

The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or not and we ask a lot of questions and do testing on the movies. For comedies, at least, it's very helpful. If they're not laughing and they don't say that they loved it, then I have screwed up. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#audience #comedies #helpful #i #incredibly

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#does #leg #machine #make #man

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#be happy #completely #create #good #got

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#bit #felt #freaks #going #had