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"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."
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"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."

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

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

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

"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."

"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."
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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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