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This is the second book in which I have attempted to set down out of my own experience and from the mass of historical material that eventually became available what happened to a great European nation in the years that were climaxed by the Second World War. In the first work I wrote of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and how it came that a cultured, Christian people lapsed into barbarism in the midst of the twentieth century, gladly abandoning their freedoms and the ordinary decencies of human life and remaining strangely indifferent to the savagery with which they treated other nations, other races.
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Memorable Lines from Jim's Book Picks 2008
Just like great scenes from the movies...here are some passages that linger with me. Enjoy!!! (Jim Agnew) Aug. 8: "Jewish thought has always been crisis thought." Aug. 6: "Why did I always have to fall among theoreticians!" Aug. 4:
Aug. 1: Memorable Lines July 30: Memorable Lines July 28: Memorable Lines July 25: Memorable Lines July 23: Memorable lines July 21: Memorable Lines July 18:
July 16: "A specter is haunting Europe---the specter of Communism." July 14:
July 11: "We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about
what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." July 9:
July 7: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece
of the continent, a part of the main." July 4:
July 2: "Love the world as a mother loves her only child." June 30:
June 27: "Familiar acts are beautiful through love." June 25:
June 23: "Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of
non-knowledge." June 20: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought." June 18:
June 16: "I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human
beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is
suppressed." June 13:
June 11: "Would I like more talent? Yes. But you cannot get more
talent". June 9:
June 6:
June 4: "The tasks of the healthy adult are simply: 'Love and Work'." June 2:
May 30: "Men are what their mothers made them." May 28: "What is there in thee, moon, that thou shouldst move my
heart so potently?" May 26:
May 23: "The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading
it." May 21:
May 19: May 16: "The idea exists only by virtue of its form." May 14:
May 12: "Work up imagination to the state of vision." May 9:
May 7:
May 5: "Happy is he who knows the causes of things." May 2: "Some people suffer mild depression and are totally disabled
by it: others suffer severe depression and make something of their lives
anyway." April 30:
April 28:
April 25:
April 23:
April 21:
April 18: "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of
them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven...thy Father
which is in secret...which seeth in secret..." April 16: "I salute you and thank you for your life." April 14: "...that where there is despair, I may bring hope...where
there is sadness, I may bring joy..." April 11: "It is immoral not to tell." April 9: "Always look up words in a good dictionary, even when you
know what they mean." April 7:
April 4:
April 2: "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute. March 31:
March 28: "We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope on
earth." March 26:
March 24: Memorable Lines March 21:
March 19:
March 17: March 14: "The end is from where we start." March 12:
March 10:
March 7:
March 5:
March 3: THE BLUES... February 29: "I can tell my hand what to do and it will do it instantly.
Why won't my mind do what I say?" February 27: "Full effort is full victory." February 25: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought." February 22: "By their fruits ye shall know them." February 20: "A people's culture is the incarnation of its religion." February 18:
February 15:
February 13: "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things unseen." February 11: "Romantic Ireland 's dead and gone." February 8:
February 6:
February 4: He outgrew women, ideas, experiences, only to incorporate
what they taught him into a new, larger, evergrowing Goethe. "I am like a
snake," he said. "I slough my skin and start afresh." February 1:
January 30:
January 28:
January 25: "Happy is he who knows the causes of things." January 23:
January 18:
January 11: "We need to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of
every passing ship." January 9:
January 7:
January 4: "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of
the past.". January 2:
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Enola
Gay and her two escorts taxied to their runways. From the North Field control
tower William Laurence, science editor of the New York Times, and the sole
newspaperman covering the story, watched intently, at General Farrell's side, as
Enola Gay slowly rumbled down the runway. She accelerated to 180 miles an hour,
but burdened by her extra weight, seemed earthbound. The onlookers, remembering
the four Superfortresses that had crashed the night before, strained to help
lift the plane into the air. 
In
Ireland the British army found itself in an impossible situation. With local
support for the rebels so pervasive, the army could not fight a guerilla war
and win. After a year morale was exceedingly low, and army reports back to
England suggest that many officers were feeling hopeless. Thus the idea of
sending in auxiliary forces to back up the army and the police was suggested
in January 1920. British Secretary For War Winston Churchill was the
mastermind behind this decision between English and the Irish. 
The
Top Ten List of Post-Stroke Indignities--Institutional Edition...
He
gave me a little lecture about breaking a conspiracy like Watergate. "You build
convincingly from the outer edges in, you get ten times the evidence you need
against the Hunts and Liddys. They feel hopelessly finished--they may not talk
right away, but the grip is on them. Then you move up and do the same thing at
the next level. If you shoot too high and miss, then everybody feels more
secure. Lawyers work this way. I'm sure reporters must too." I recall he gave me
a look as if to say I did not belong in that category of smart reporters. "You
put the investigation back months. It puts everyone on the defensive--editors,
FBI agents, everybody has to go into a crouch after this."
Meanwhile
Hausner also had to prepare the legal arguments. Here, at least, he could
delegate responsibility to members of his prosecution team. It comprised Gabriel
Bach, an English-trained lawyer aged thirty-four, who was seconded from the
Ministry of Justice as adviser to Bureau 06, and Yaacov Bar-or, the
forty-five-year-old District Attorney of Tel Aviv. Thanks to the furor over the
kidnapping, Hausner knew he would have to justify Israel's right to try Eichmann
at all. And he had to anticipate that Dr. Servatius would challenge the legal
basis of the prosecution. When Servatius had defended Nazis at Nuremburg he had
routinely argued that the charges of crimes against humanity and the commission
of genocide rested on retrospective legislation of dubious standing. To rebut
this line of attack Hausner drew on the venerable talents of Dr Jacob Robinson,
aged seventy-one, who had assisted Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremburg. Since
then Robinson had served as legal adviser to the Israeli delegation to the UN,
and was an expert in international law. Ultimately, however, the onus fell on
Hausner's shoulders and no one else's. In desperation he ended up locking
himself away in a Tel Aviv hotel for six weeks 'with two carloads of books and
files, working almost around the clock in complete isolation'.
Great coverage, Jim!
Thanks! Caroline Howell- Amadeus Press
"No
matter how time and space are defined, it is impossible to be simultaneously in
Brooklyn and Manhattan."
"He
who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And
if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
"The
one thing necessary, in life as in art, is to tell the truth."
"We
always find something, eh Didi, to give the impression we exist?"
"And then there crept a little noiseless noise among the leaves,
"Dreams
are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"
"Genius...means
little more than the faculty of perceiving in an habitual way."
"As
human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the
world--that is the myth of the 'atomic age'--as in being able to remake
ourselves."
"A mind that is fast is sick.
"A
certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to
creative thinking as it is to armed robbery."
"I
believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is
particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed."
"The
only way not to be unhappy is to shut yourself up in Art and count all the rest
as nothing."
"Where
do we get such men? They leave this ship and they do their job. Then they must
find this speck lost somewhere in the sea. When they find it, they have to land
on its pitching deck. Where do we get such men?"
"The
privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
"The
only time a human being is free is when he or she makes a work of art."
"This
wouldn't be the first time Nicklaus had seen Palmer in the flesh. At the 1954
Ohio amateur championship outside Toledo, Jackie was a fourteen-year-old
qualifier who stumbled upon a dark, solitary figure on the Sylvania Country Club
driving range, raging at ball after ball in a biblical rain.
"The
sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in
interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self
protection."
"Love's
mysteries in souls do grow,
"Laughter
is the essence of mankind."
"Yet
those who are most anxious to listen to him ask him to be not just another
figure from the real world but an emissary from some other world that doesn't
exist."
"Formerly,
we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them."
"Grief
and trouble bring life, whereas prosperity and pleasure bring death."
"The
mind can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."
"People
don't like using dictionaries when they're reading mere novels."
"Though
all the fates should prove unkind, leave not your native land behind...."
"The
most intolerable people are provincial celebrities."
"Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the
way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close
to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those
who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, "the blues"
which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of
everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a
hint of the illness in its catastrophic form. But at the time of which i write I
had descended far past those familiar, manageable doldrums." 
"He
was interested in the magic, not fake magic, like hiding the ball under the cup,
but real magic, the kind that occurs between people. Nowadays, everybody making
movies want to get the clothes off fast and the guns out quick; he was just the
opposite. He was interested in the poetry, lavishing the viewer with story, and
the scope and richness. Look at what you got for your $12 ticket with Anthony."
"I
used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president
or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond
market. You can intimidate everybody."
"You're
entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts."
"We
rarely look closely at that principal operating unit of economic activity: the
human being. What are we? What is fixed in our nature and not subject to
change--and how much discretion and free will do we have to act and learn? I
have been struggling with this question since I first knew to ask it."
"It
is not easy to find the right way...You must manage your freedom or drown in
it.'
"The
beginning of April surprised Moscow in the white stupor of returning winter. On
the seventh it began to thaw for the second time, and on the fourteenth when
Mayakovsky shot himself, not everyone had yet become accustomed to the novelty
of spring."
"Race prejudice is no trouble...when they find out that you
have what they want and can't get it elsewhere, they admit you with a smile."
"There
is no ancestor so powerful as one's earlier selves."
"It
is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance."
"The
Bible is easily the most beautiful work ever written; whoever wrote it is God to
me." 
"One of the
best friends mankind ever had."
"The most
perfect artist among women."
"Man is
but a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed."
"Love's
mysteries in souls do grow,
"I
am commencing an undertaking, hitherto without precedent, and which will never
find an imitator. I desire to set before my fellows the likeness of a man in all
truth of nature, and that man myself...If I am not better, at least I am
different."
"We
haven't chosen the easiest trail. But we've pointed our herd toward Kansas in an
effort to find a new market for an old product. We call it Tallgrass Beef, a
grass-fed and grass-finished product."
"To
live--that means for us to change all that we are, constantly, into light and
flame...that art of transfiguration--that is philosophy."
"I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the
arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified
to be a comedian."
"There
are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."