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„I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then.“

— Irena Sendler Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer 1910 - 2008
Context: I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then. I was sentenced to death. Referring to Nazi doctrines that German "Aryans" were a "master-race" of "supermen", as quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005)

„I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.“

— Irena Sendler Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer 1910 - 2008
Context: Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little. As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005)

„I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.“

— Irena Sendler Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer 1910 - 2008
As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4314145.stm

Personality, Religion

„Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.“

— Irena Sendler Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer 1910 - 2008
Quoted in "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto" by Rupert Cornwell in The Independent (14 May 2008)

„How true it is that some have greatness thrust upon them! - and you may be quite sure that it was none of my seeking.“

— John Tenniel British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist 1820 - 1914
M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators (2003), Of his knighthood; p. 18

„It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.“

— Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Strong, Children, Men

„I figured out that my passion is not really for music. My passion is actually for people. So the exploration into different musics of different times has to do with trying to figure out who these people are, what this music represents and what context do we want to give it and what does it mean to us right now.“

— Yo-Yo Ma American cellist 1955
National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday Jan. 14, 2007, NPR, 2009-02-03 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6835078,

Time, Passion, Music, People

„Unmediated concepts … veil the relations between objects. … They are, therefore, objects of knowledge, but the object which is known through them is not the capitalist system of production itself, but the ideology of its ruling class.“

— György Lukács, book History and Class Consciousness
History and Class Consciousness (1968), pp. 13-14

Knowledge

„The singular mission of the working woman is to fuse her feminine calling with her vocational calling and, by means of that fusion, to give a feminine quality to her vocational calling.“

— Edith Stein Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher 1891 - 1942
Essays on Woman (1996), Fundamental Principles of Women's Education (1931)

„The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate,
But in this world a spell of health is the best state.
What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war;
Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.“

— Suleiman Sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1494 - 1566
Poetry, Mansel, Philip, Constantinople: city of the world's desire 1453-1924 (1995), p. 84

Wealth, Thinking, World, Health

„An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.“

— Gary Zukav American writer and revivalist 1942

Personality, Soul, Love

„Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.“

— Jimmy Durante American jazz singer, pianist, comedian and actor 1893 - 1980
As quoted in Low Man On A Totem Pole (1941) by Harry Allen Smith, p. 185 Variant: Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?

Hell, People

„Pain is just a consequence of love.“

— Ariana Grande American singer-songwriter 1993
My Everything (2014)

Pain, Love

„I'm very proud [to be part Italian] … Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. … I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding. But I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-round happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know – veggies, fruit and salad – then when I get home I'll have something else.“

— Ariana Grande American singer-songwriter 1993
"Ariana Grande: "I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding"" https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ariana-grande-i-love-animals-4754625, interview with the Mirror (5 December 2014)

Personality, Parting, Animals, Home

„But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.“

— Robert Burns Scottish poet and lyricist 1759 - 1796
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Bonny Lesley.

Love

„Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.“

— Ariana Grande American singer-songwriter 1993
Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/868164986887176192 (26 May 2017)

Happiness, Music

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