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A writer is like God. He can destroy empires, create new universes.

"Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you" is the greatest phrase ever written. If everyone followed that creed, this world would be a paradise.

WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME----------GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!

As comics writers we had to have villains in our stories. And once World War II started, the Nazis gave us the greatest villains in the world to fight against. It was a slam dunk.

To me you can wrap all of Judaism up in one sentence, and that is, 'Do not do unto others...' All I tried to do in my stories was show that there's some innate goodness in the human condition. And there's always going to be evil; we should always be fighting evil.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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