total teenage flashback: lyrical perfection

find me, sign me up.  come and remind me, come and align me. come on and find me.

ernie halter

remember how charlie brown chased that red-headed girl around?
 well, i know just how he feels.

Leo Tolstoy

"What is a Jew? This question is not at all so odd as it seems. Let us see what kind of peculiar creature the Jew is, which all the rulers and all the nations have together and separately abused and molested, oppressed and persecuted, trampled and butchered, burned and hanged...and in spite of all this is yet alive.

What is a Jew, who has never allowed himself to be led astray by all the earthly possessions which his oppressors and persecutors constantly offered him in order that he should change his faith and forsake his own Jewish religion?

The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from the heaven the everlasting fire and has illuminated with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions.

...The Jew is the emblem of eternity. He whom neither slaughter nor torture of thousands of years could destroy, he whom neither fire nor sword nor inquisition was able to wipe off the face of the earth, he who was the first to produce the Oracles of G-d, he who has been for so long the guardian of the prophecy, and who transmitted it to the rest of the world--such a nation cannot be destroyed. The Jew is as everlasting as is eternity itself.[1]