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Israel fits into the zeitgeist of our era. It is true that there are demographic threats to its existence. That is why a separation from the Palestinians is a compelling imperative. ”
It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life. ”
Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness. ”
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. ”
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ”
People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. ”
I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings. ”
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ”
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self. ”
No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us. ”