“Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.”
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
David Ben-Gurion, as quoted in Israel : Years of Crisis Years of Hope (1973) by Roman Frister, p. 45
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“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
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