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"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
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"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."
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"Those who have a listening heart can hear the song of silence."
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"A closed heart is the most self limiting factor in life. Start to listen to your heartfelt desires."
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"My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling."
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"Springfield has always had a place in my heart."
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"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."
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"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."
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"I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it."
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"But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes."
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"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
Heart
"In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths."
Family
"There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles."
Boys
"You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses."
Family
"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
Public
"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
Growth
"The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die."
Czar
"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue."
Love
"If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them."
Life
"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day."
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