The Secret Room - True short story of the ten Boom family, their rescue of Jews during second world war Nazi occupation of Holland and imprisonment in concentration camp. Short version of The Hiding Place book and film.
Holland At War - What the Dutch Jews experienced during WWII in Holland; similar to Anne Frank's story.
Anne Frank Was Not Alone - Holland and the Holocaust - Transcript of a lecture by Anthony Anderson on the persecution of Jews under the German occupation, when some 70% of all Jews living in Holland perished in the Holocaust.
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Holocaust A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Holocaust
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Holocaust Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Holocaust
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Holocaust We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Holocaust
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Holocaust All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Holocaust
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Holocaust "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Holocaust
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Holocaust All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Holocaust
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Holocaust Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Holocaust
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Holocaust There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Holocaust
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Holocaust One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Holocaust
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Holocaust "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Holocaust
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Holocaust I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Holocaust
