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Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria. ”
The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life. ”
Social revolutions are never simple. ”
I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career. ”
When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether. ”
Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak. ”
When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless - or so I thought. ”
Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion. ”
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. ”
A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on. ”