50 Quotes by Israel Zangwill

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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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    You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

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    Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

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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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    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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    In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the 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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    Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own.

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