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“Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.”

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Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,' which the Nazis always talked about but never dared undertake, not even the Nazis, until war and its 'necessities' gave them the knowledge that they could get away with it. The people abroad who thought that…

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The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

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“It was not anti-Semitism or socialism or the New Order that first animated the Nazis; their first slogal was, "Break the chains of Versailles.”

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“In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community's attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, "blood," "folkishness")…

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“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to. If the good had been twice as good and the bad only half as bad, I still ought to have see it, all through as I did in the beginning, because I am, as you say, sensitive. But I didn't want to see it, because I would have then had to…

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I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me.

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“The world once purged by flood ends always again in the surer purgative of fire.”

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“Why does a man want his children to be better than himself?”

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The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious…

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“I think," says Professor Carl Hermann, who never left his homeland, "that even now the outside world does not realize how surprised we non-Nazis were in 1933. When mass dictatorship occurred in Russia, then in Italy, we said to one another, 'That is what happens in backward countries. We are fortunate, for all our troubles, that it cannot happen here.'…

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“How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even…

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“None of my ten friends, even today, ascribes moral evil to Hitler, although most of them think (after the fact) that he made fatal…

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Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they were right for each other. He'd read that book, seen the movie, bought the soundtrack, the DVD, the T-shirt, the mug, the bobble-head, and the insider's guide. He knew every reason they could have been lock…

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I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

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There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

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Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another

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The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement of all. God offers each of us the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. When we accept God's gift of salvation, our name is written in the Book of Life, guaranteeing us a place in…

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