"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."

People, Fear, Temptation

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"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."

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

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"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."

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"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."

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"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could."

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