Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding.


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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
HERMAN HESSE
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. ...
HERMAN CAIN
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfu...
HERMAN HESSE
I would prefer not to.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticism...
HERMAN MELVILLE
This can not be about a race to the bottom.
ALEXIS HERMAN
The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you ...
ALEXIS HERMAN
My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, ...
ALEXIS HERMAN
The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. The...
ALEXIS HERMAN
Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today direc...
ALEXIS HERMAN
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of chi...
ALEXIS HERMAN
Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. ...
ALEXIS HERMAN
There is no substitute really for learning about the world of work and being in the world of work. Y...
ALEXIS HERMAN
But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at s...
ALEXIS HERMAN
Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Asso...
HERMAN CAIN
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an ar...
HERMAN KAHN
My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all fed...
HERMAN CAIN
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you'...
GEORGE HERMAN
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and ...
HERMAN GORTER
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold peril...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. The...
HERMAN MELVILLE
This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true...
HERMAN CAIN
Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
HERMAN CAIN
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but ...
HERMAN KAHN
I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the ...
HERMAN HESSE
Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relati...
HERMAN KAHN
That would mean would be icing on the cake. The past 27 years has been the cake, that would be the i...
BOB HERMAN
The joke was that we were retiring at the end of every year.
BOB HERMAN
What I do, with the office schedule I don't schedule regular things past 2:30 p.m. - unless its an e...
BOB HERMAN
Those years I was the assistant coach at Lancaster Catholic and got to coach my son to a section cha...
BOB HERMAN
Defense is a big part of the game, and that was the difference in the game tonight. They had an inni...
BILL HERMAN
We function as an advocacy group in forcing the administration's hand.
BILL HERMAN
With everybody back on defense, that will be our strength. Everyone has experience playing in a regi...
BILL HERMAN
That was big. We were awfully aggressive.
BILL HERMAN
Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the fir...
HERMAN KAHN
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for thi...
HERMAN HESSE
My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, ...
ALEXIS HERMAN
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and b...
HERMAN HESSE
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
HERMAN MANKIEWICZ
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMAN HESSE
The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How...
HERMAN ANDREWS
(The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. Thi...
HERMAN ANDREWS
I don't know how many people we're going to have participating, but if those people don't give 100 p...
HERMAN ANDREWS
They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't affo...
HERMAN ANDREWS
There weren't any great performances, but we won it.
HERMAN ANDREWS
We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are a ...
HERMAN ANDREWS
It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When it...
HERMAN ANDREWS
There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better.
HERMAN ANDREWS
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
HERMAN MELVILLE
One right decision doth not a great president make.
HERMAN CAIN
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
HERMAN WOUK