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We are living in an age of peacemaking. Not peace through love. Peace through accord.

— Shulamith Hareven The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)

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The greatest leaders the world has known were never charismatic or dependent on their public's falling in love with them.

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There is nothing to do but to fix and fix and repair and repair all the time, every day, all our lives.

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Statistics are often the last refuge of the antihumanist.

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From now on there will always be a great self-consciousness between us, as between people who have gone too far.

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Midway in life, as at its outset, you do not trust your body not to fail or disappoint you.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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