"Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims."

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Source : Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth on PBS, 2002.

Amos Oz

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“Give every person more in use value than you take from them in cash value.”
“He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.”
“For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.”
“Age is a number on a piece of paper.”
“I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.”
“The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.”
“I know that it's not all about me. It's about the sport. I never want to be bigger than racquetball. I just want to get up in the morning, have my coffee, turn on ESPN or TSN and see racquetball.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“We know when we use the full talents of our population we're more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they're better employees.”

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