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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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"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."

"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us."
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"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."


"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."


"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."


"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."


"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."


"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."


"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."
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