"My answer is: Recognize yourself in others"

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Source : Judea Pearl, Ruth Pearl, Ehud Barak, Sylvia Boorstein, Edgar M. Bronfman (2005). “I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl”, p.187, Jewish Lights Publishing

Nadine Gordimer

#Answers Quotes

“We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex”
“Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.”

Source : 1810 'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
“The guy in the Red Sox hat came in with an astonishingly beautiful blond woman at his side. He stood close to her, and though they weren't touching, it was clear that they were a couple. They just belonged together.”
“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”
“There is no such thing as high returns without risk.”
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
“You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.”

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