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"Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead."
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"There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair."
"Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas."
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."
"I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go."
"Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned."
"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."
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"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."
"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."
"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."
"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."
"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."
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