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what is best in people is not self-abnegation. What is best in people is a sturdy connection between respect for the self and respect for the other: reaching in and out at the same time

— Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

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Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

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