"The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the Holocaust was not totally successful."

-- Yehuda Bauer

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“And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.”
“Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. Iâ€™ve had many years of recovery and therapy, years filled with intimate and devoted friendships, yet I still struggle. I know that when someone gets a big slice of pie, it doesnâ€™t mean thereâ€™s less for me. In fact, I know that there isnâ€™t even a pie, that thereâ€™s plenty to go around, enough food and love and air. But I donâ€™t believe it for a second. I secretly believe thereâ€™s a pie. I will go to my grave brandishing my fork.”
“It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.”
“When thoughts come, you can invite them in but don't serve them tea.”
“I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.”
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”

Source : "The Book of Sand". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1975.
“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”
“It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.”

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