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"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?"

"If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that."

"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."

"I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault."
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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."


"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."


"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."


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