I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.

~ Ralph Webster

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I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.

~ Ralph Webster

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And so the picture that I showed her that Sunday, a picture I'd seen countless times since I was a boy, brought home to me for the first time the strangeness of my relationship to the people I was interviewing, people who were rich in memories but poor in keepsakes, whereas I was so rich in the keepsakes but had no memories to go with them.

~ Daniel Mendelsohn

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The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.

~ A.e. Samaan

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