Jews

"No interviews. No panels. No speeches. No comments," he [Wasserman] ordered his agents. "Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit."

"All stress inhibits true and effective learning."

"If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary."

"If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it."

"What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget."

"Alone dwells every man and everyone mocks everyone else, and a deserted island is our pain."

"Brothers, my human brothers, force me to believe in eternal life."

"Only with her I was not alone, now I am alone with everyone."

"With her alone I could be far away from everyone."

"She does not talk anymore, the one who used to talk so pleasantly."

"She answers no more, the one who used to answer always."

"In my sleep, which is the song of the tombs, I have just seen her again, as beautiful as in her youth."

"My true single consolation is that she is not present to see me in my agony of her death."

"Human friends, friends in hardship and in life, this is our pure love, love of mother and son."

"Never again I would know her slow kisses which are hardly felt. Never again the ringing mourning bells, songs of the dead that we loved."

"I say to myself that her small hands are no more worm, and that I would never again carry them soft to my front."

"In my solitude I sing to myself a sweet lullaby, as sweet as my mother used to sing to me."

"Go away, image of my living mother, full of life, as I saw her in France for the last time. Go away! My mother's ghost."

"Yes, the words, the land of my birth, they console me and compensate, but they would not bring me my mother back."

"To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject."

"A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope. It is inferior in methodological rigor to none of the modern sciences. All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force."

"No one in our century has raised the call for philosophy as a rigorous science with such clarity, purity, vigor, and breadth as Husserl."

"A child might be overawed by a great city, but a civil engineer knows that he might demolish it and rebuild it himself. Husserl's philosophy has the same aim: to show us that, although we may have been thrust into this world without a 'by your leave,' we are mistaken to assume that it exists independently of us. It is true that reality exists apart from us; but what we mistake for the world is actually a world constituted by us, selected from an infinitely complex reality."

"Husserl has shown that man's prejudices go a great deal deeper than his intellect or his emotions. Consciousness itself is 'prejudiced' — that is to say, intentional."

"Whoever wishes to define the conceptual invariants of natural beauty would make himself as ridiculous as Husserl did when he reports that while ambulating he perceived the green freshness of the lawn. Whoever declaims on natural beauty verges on poetastery. Only the pedant presumes to distinguish the beautiful from the ugly in nature, but without such distinction the concept of natural beauty would be empty."

"First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting."

"The three-toed tree-toad Sings his sweet ode To the moon; The funny bunny And his honey Trip in tune."

"He stood with his muzzle thrust out through the door The whole forty days of that terrible pour! Because of which drenching, the Sages unfold, The Nose of a Healthy Dog always is Cold."

"Oh, who would choose to be a traveler?— That anxious railway-guide unraveler Who spends his nights in berths and bunks, His days in chaperoning trunks; Who stands in line at gates and wickets To spend his means on costly tickets To Irkutsk, Liverpool and Yap And other dots upon the map."

"The finest thing in London is the Bobby; Benignant information is his hobby."

"Drab is the town as a shawl-hooded crone, And dreary and cold with a chill all its own. You ask them for bread and they give you a scone, In Glasgow."

"For Education is, Making Men; So is it now, so was it when Mark Hopkins sat on one end of a log And James Garfield sat on the other."

"Bless the four comers of this house, And be the lintel blest; And bless the hearth and bless the board And bless each place of rest."

"Hail Guest! We ask not what thou art: If Friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If Stranger, such no longer be; If Foe, our love shall conquer thee."

"Oh, the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!"

"The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages, By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!"

"It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers (Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest). Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers (Of course Some People like the city best)!"

"Commute with me, my Love, and be merry; How vain in the City to dwell When apple-trees blow in Dobbs' Ferry And lilacs adorn New Rochelle! White Plains is the Garden of Allah And Pelham's the Pearl of the Sea; There's bliss in the name of Valhalla— Oh, fly to the Suburbs with me!"

"The Pilgrims landed, worthy men, And, saved from wreck on raging seas, They fell upon their knees, and then Upon the Aborigines."

"The Prophet's Cam-u-el, that primal Desert Ship."

"The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gamboled up; They looked upon the Creature with a loathing undisguised;— It wasn't Disinfected and it wasn't Sterilized."

"The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls Of mastodons, are billiard balls.The sword of Charlemagne the Just Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust.The grizzly bear, whose potent hug Was feared by all, is now a rug.Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf, And I don't feel so well myself!"

"Of all cold words of tongue or pen The worst are these: "I knew him when ——""

"The Fawns don't dine When a Wolf's about, And the Porcupine Puts his quill points out."

"They earned a name that lives in song, Those woodsmen stout and plucky Whose hair and rifles both were long— The Hunters of Kentucky."

"Amœbas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart, And started Sex."

"'Tis Sex that rules the lives Of clowns and kings; It gives us books and wives And other things—Ambition, love and strife And all the ills And ecstacies of life, And Freuds and Brills."

"Thus have I sorrowed, Learning to my cost That a book that's borrowed Is a book that's lost!"

"Lightly we follow our cue, Exit, pursued by a bear."

"Oh, the Brown Missouri Mule has a copper-plated throat, And the welkin splits apart when he hits an upper note."