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"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

"This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts."

"Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here."
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"We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord."


"Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal."


"If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that."


"Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn."


"Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant."


"Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society."


"In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny."
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