"I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy."

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Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

Joseph Epstein

#Thinking Quotes #Envy Quotes #Anti Semitism Quotes

“One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.”
“When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pityâ€¦”
“Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.”
“When you have a Clear purpose, you won't have time for negativity”
“Ill always be a Backstreet Boy.”
“If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.”
“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”

Source : "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2003.
“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity”

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