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

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?"

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

"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
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