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JULY 8, 2021 | The Jewish Home OCTOBER 29, 2015 | The Jewish Home

Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

Let me get this straight? You can be off by 135,000 votes in a New York City mayoral primary alone but if someone loses the White House by less than 45,000 across multiple states in a presidential election you can’t have any questions. Seems legit… if you live in China. – Tweet by Donald Trump, Jr., after the NY City Board of Elections admitted to erroneously including 135,000 test votes in their counting of the votes after the mayoral primaries

My father raised me with love, loving everyone. He always told me and my siblings to do good, to share everything with others.

I don’t really care if I’m the youngest...it’s all about getting knowledge for me. - Belgian student Laurent Simons, 11, who became the second-to-youngest-ever college graduate after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in physics at the University of Antwerp

If a child can play football well, we all think the media attention is great. My son has a different talent. Why should he not be proud of that?

- Emilio Flores Márquez, 112, of Puerto Rico, sharing his secret of longevity upon being crowned the oldest man alive by the Guinness Book of World Records last week

The assertion that Twitter is in coordination with any government to suppress speech has no basis in fact whatsoever. – Statement by Twitter after they faced backlash for suspending a University of Canterbury professor’s account because he poking fun at Chinese President Xi Jinping

- Simons’ father

We’ve survived this long together because, first of all, we give each other plenty of space to do our own thing. - Jimmy Carter talking to ABC News after his 75th wedding anniversary

We’re always looking to do things or find things we can do together, like fly fishing and bird watching and just going out to the pond, catch a fish.

When you’re living in a world where 40 million people have been laid off and I’m making $200 million, you won’t get no complaining from me. – NBA great Shaquille O’Neal responding to LeBron James complaining about the grueling NBA schedule last season

You know what’s good about this? We’re letting the nation know we can cooperate.

I don’t complain and make excuses, because real people are working their tail off and all we gotta do is train two hours a day and then play a game for two hours at night and make a lot of money…so my thought process is a little different.

- President Biden, while visiting the site of the Surfside building collapse

- Ibid.

- Jimmy’s wife of 75 years, Rosalynn Carter


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