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This is the positive way of seeing the modern Jewish dilemma: I am from everywhere. The negative way is no matter where you go, you find out that you're a victim, that you're unwanted and don't belong. ”
Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. ”
Until 2005, France had the only senior Catholic prelate in modern times who was born Jewish and still considered himself culturally Jewish: Cardinal Lustiger. ”
Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance. ”
In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East. ”
The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns. ”
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. ”
The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free. ”
When you recruit good candidates and you have a good message and you have energy and organization and partnership, you always have a fighting chance. ”
With patience, persistence, and partnership, we can create economic opportunity for every person willing to work hard for it. ”