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• old
• look
• best

You have to look at Jews like Bina Gelbfish, to explain the wide range and persistence of the race. Jews who carry their homes in an old cowhide bag, on the back of a camel, in the bubble of air at the center of their brains. Jews who land on their feet, hit the ground running, ride out the vicissitudes, and make the best of what falls to hand, from Egypt to Babylon, from Minsk Gubernya to the district of Sitka. Methodological, organised, persistent, resourceful, prepared... A mere re-drawing... Michael Chabon

• secret love
• the secret
• happy

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin. Eugene O'Neill

• understanding
• love
• destiny

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, then it wasn't true love... Paulo Coelho

• smoking
• manly
• thinking

You'd think the man could have called her once, she thought, scowling at her boots. Sent a telegram, a damn smoke signal. Nora Roberts

• world
• reasonably
• see

You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons. Jean Renoir

• ultimate
• manly
• freedom

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up or down: up to man's age-old dream -- the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. Ronald Reagan

• manly
• you are loved
• love

You are young, and in love…Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived. Neil Gaiman

• little
• employed
• littles

You should employ your little grey cells Agatha Christie

• time
• end
• bear

You do not know how the people of this country bear malice. It is the boast of some of them that they can keep a stone in their pocket seven years, turn it at the end of that time, keep it seven years longer, and hurl it and hit their mark at last. Charlotte Bronte

• intelligent
• animal
• hope

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley

• surprise
• little
• littles

You have been abroad then? said Henry, a little surprised. Jane Austen

• him
• fighting
• fairness

You don't fight fair," he accused. I grinned back at him."Never said I did. Stephenie Meyer

• die
• snow
• men

You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live. George R. R. Martin

• short
• men
• manly

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man. Norton Juster

• may
• challenge
• world

You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints". Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. Viktor E. Frankl