Consider how many people have heard of the French town of Evian. Nowadays it’s known for its gourmet drinking water. For Jewish history, the name carries another connotation. In 1938 a refugee conference was convened there. The object: to see who might take the Jews of Germany. Hitler supposedly was willing but the result was no one and nothing. And the headlines in Nazi paper, “Jews for Sale. Who wants them? No one.” -Michael Zedek
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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