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“Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.”

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Frederic Goudy (March 8, 1865 - May 11, 1947) was an American type designer who is renowned for his significant contributions to typography and his enduring influence on the field. He was born in Illinois, USA, and passed away in 1947. more

“It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.”

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Author:Edmond Jabes

“No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.”

Past Identity Masters

Book:The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface

Source: The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface

“Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of their own most intimate feelings, achieve what they deserve: not self-understanding but radical self-superficialization, not a discovered but a self-ascribed identity that explains nothing, reveals nothing, means nothing, and ultimately accomplishes nothing culturally or intellectually.”

“What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.”

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Author:J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

“In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.”

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Author:Oscar Handlin

“You will always be your child's favorite toy.”

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Author:Vicki Lansky

“He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and I never wanted to go back, because to me it is a great privilege to be an American citizen.”

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Author:Anton Cermak

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