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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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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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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."
"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."
"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."
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