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"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"
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"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."

"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."

"Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive."
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"For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles."


"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."


"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."


"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."


"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."


"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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