Path of Hope - The Final Way. Personal experience of holocaust and escape from execution of Berezhany Jewish Ghetto. Story by Menachem Katz from Israel.
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Berezhany "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Berezhany
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Berezhany Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Berezhany
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Berezhany God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Berezhany
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Berezhany Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Berezhany
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Berezhany May you never leave your marriage alive. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Berezhany
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Berezhany 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 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Berezhany
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Berezhany The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Berezhany
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Berezhany "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Berezhany
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Berezhany The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Berezhany
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins 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 Berezhany A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Berezhany
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "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) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Berezhany "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) 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 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Berezhany
