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“Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses.”

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Author:Gerald Kaufman

“History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.”

Men Ideas Born History Dying Deeds Cemetery

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.”

“The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.”

“Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.”

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Book:A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation

Source: A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation

“How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.”

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Author:Lucille Ball

“Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”

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Book:Four Novels by James Joyce

Source: Four Novels by James Joyce

“I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.”

Want Born History Knowing Europe Absolutely Nothing Knowing Nothing

Author:Paul Klee

“History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.”

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Author:Bill Nye