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I'd rather speak as a student...

I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?

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He explained to me with great...

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

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I thought that culture and ed...

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

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Take the story of Cain and Ab...

Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not approaching it from the scientific point of view. I'm saying: Why do we need that? It's a sordid story, a depressing story, a dark story. Why should I believe that I'm a descendant of either Cain or Abel? Thank God there is a third son! [Genesis 4:25]

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The Vietnam War ended because...

The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only thanks to the young people. So, young people especially have a responsibility for Tibet.

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Just as there are predatory b...

Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.

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I feel that books, just like ...

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

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He wants to see whether we ar...

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.

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I read the text; and then I c...

I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.

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My approach is not a scientif...

My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

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The only way for us to help o...

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

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They are committing the great...

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

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I make a difference between g...

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

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My students are very special....

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

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[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of th...

[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

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Pain is essential. Often I ca...

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

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What [Franz] Kafka says about...

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

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You know how many reasons we ...

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

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did everything I could in my ...

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

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The more we know, the more pa...

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

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