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"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
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"I just miss - I miss being anonymous."
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"I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy."
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"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."
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"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."
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"To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind."
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"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
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"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."
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"It seemed natural; natural to the moment's peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from everything, immediate, but disconnected, like a bright island in a wall of fog, the heightened, unquestioning reality one feels when one is drunk."
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
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"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is."
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"For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles."
Life
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
Sense
"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
Age
"No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation."
Time
"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."
Travel
"I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive."
Chance
"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
Perception
"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."
Culture
"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."
God
"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."
Power
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