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Israel Zangwill

"Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion."

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"Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion."

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"In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera."
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"No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman."
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"No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man."
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"The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it."
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"It takes two men to make one brother."
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"America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!"
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"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition."
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