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"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
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"We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage."
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"For a clever man, different cultures, different lives, different attitudes, different dreams, different of everything are a good teacher! You only take the things you already know from somebody or something like you!"
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"Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is."
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"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."
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"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty."
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"Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there, within us."
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"Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person."
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"For in Mexico, ladies and gentlemen, it's always high noon and what glows is fuchsia and what's dead is dead and no feather-dusters."
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"The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance."
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"It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back."
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"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
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"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
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"I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive."
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"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
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"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."
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"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."
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"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
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"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
People
"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
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"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."
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