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"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."
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"Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors."

"I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon."

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

"The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the seventeenth, and the first known outbreaks of influenza near the end of the nineteenth. We've become so used to the idea of the flu--it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it?--that no one but the historians seem to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist."

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
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"Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence."

"Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict."

"There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle."

"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."

"In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here."

"US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan."

"Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective."

"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."
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