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“Promises are just chains,” she rasps. “Both meant for breaking.”
“The thing is, you cannot ask people to coexist by having one side bow their heads and rely on a solution that is only good for the other side. What you can do is stop blaming each other and engage in dialogue with one person at a time. Everyone knows that violence begets violence and breeds more hatred. We need to find our way together. I feel I cannot rely on the various spokespersons who claim they act on my behalf. Invariably they have some agenda that doesn't work for me. Instead, I talk to my patients, to my neighbors and colleagues--Jews, Arabs--and I find out they feel as I do: we are more similar than we are different, and we are all fed up with the violence.”
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“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― A Treatise of Human Nature
― A Treatise of Human Nature
“It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.”
― The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
― The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
“There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.”
― Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
― Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
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