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"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."

"Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand."

"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."

"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."
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"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?"

"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."

"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."

"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."

"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out."

"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."

"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."

"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."

"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."
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