You wish you had not come. If there...

You wish you had not come. If there were not so many around, you would reach out your arms, with the prayer on your lips for it all to come back to you. It seems cruel, cruel, to give us such a vision; to let us dream and drift through heaven for six months, and then to take it out of our lives.

- Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

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It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.

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American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem. Germany's persecution of Jews raised the specter of a vast influx of Jewish refugees at a time when America was reeling from the Depression.

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The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

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