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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.


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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.



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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.



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As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.



I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.



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I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.



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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.



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I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.



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Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.



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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.



My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing.

My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing.



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I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.



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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.




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