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New Cemetery in Lublin - Account of a personal tour of Jewish cemeteries in this location.
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Lublin Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Lublin
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Lublin "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Lublin
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Lublin Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Lublin
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lublin The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Lublin
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Lublin Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Lublin
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Lublin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Lublin
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha 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 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Lublin Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Lublin
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Lublin "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Lublin
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Lublin We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lublin
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Lublin Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Lublin
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Lublin "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Lublin
