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"There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."

"Religion is a distraction from true education."

"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."

"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."

"It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life."
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"If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail."

"In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law."

"Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam."

"The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier."

"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."

"France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose."

"When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines."
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