#wi

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. ↗

— Carl Jung

#come #creative #creative work #debt #ever

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. ↗

— Carl Jung

#always #clear #does #grows #sometimes

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#billion #condition #dollars #know #korea

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#between #china #could #japan #korea

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France. ↗

— Alain Juppe

#france #good #good luck #govern #i

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#church #feel #freer #god #i

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#church #getting #i #me #philosophical

I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way. ↗

— David Justice

#ever #hank #home #home run #i

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. ↗

— Donald Justice

#close #coming #doors #forty #learn

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was especially high in the secret police and 'security' departments, where no doubt revenge played its own part, as did the ideological attachment to Communism that was so strong among internationally minded Jews at that period: Jews like David Szmulevski. There were reasonably strong indigenous Communist forces in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, but in Hungary and Poland the Communists were a small minority and knew it, were dependent on the Red Army and aware of the fact, and were disproportionately Jewish and widely detested for that reason. Many of the penal labor camps constructed by the Nazis were later used as holding pens for German deportees by the Communists, and some of those who ran these grim places were Jewish. Nobody from Israel or the diaspora who goes to the East of Europe on a family-history fishing-trip should be unaware of the chance that they will find out both much less and much more than the package-tour had promised them. It's easy to say, with Albert Camus, 'neither victims nor executioners.' But real history is more pitiless even than you had been told it was. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#camus #communism #czechoslovakia #david-szmulevski #east-germany