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There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#eleven #expect #here #i #i can

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#many #ny times #opportunity #people #see

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin. ↗

— William Gurnall

#sins #teachers

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. ↗

— Philip Guston

#i #kind #like #miracle #need

I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#just #pickle #ride #want

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor. ↗

— Alexander Chee

#respect #talent #talented #work #experience

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

#imagined #magic #mind #moves #painting

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices. ↗

— David Guterson

#amount #certain #condemned #confines #freedom

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars. ↗

— David Guterson

#after #book #case #certainly #comes

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good. ↗

— Savannah Guthrie

#good #grades #high #high school #i