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"I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples."
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"Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing."

"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."

"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."

"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."

"I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats."

"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."
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"Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe."

"We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory."

"And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so."

"The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people."

"So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on."

"One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more."

"I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples."
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