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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. ↗

— John Adams

#atheist #believe #believed #blind #civilize

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#africans #black #civil-rights #justice #king

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#i #i think #know #love #love you

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#angle #ball #call #decisions #difference

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. ↗

— Steve Allen

#patriotism #totalitarianism

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #life #my life #only #realized

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#even #fascinated #funnier #her #i

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#childhood #done #had #hanging #i

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#change #descended #done #further #got

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of. ↗

— Tori Amos

#around #business #getting #jerked #made