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"If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody."

"I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?"

"A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked."

"Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours."
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"For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles."


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


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


"No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation."


"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."


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


"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."


"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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