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A family farm offered the key to a life of “virtue”—a word then used to mean wholesome, productive, public-spirited independence. What made for independence in this sense was not literal economic self-sufficiency but self-employment,
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“He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.”
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“By reading holy literature as if it were a dream, we gain access to a primary mode of our collective unconscious.”
― The River of Light: Jewish Mystical Awareness
― The River of Light: Jewish Mystical Awareness
“If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel'”
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“Draw every bad word you’ve ever called yourself on your body. Stand in the shower and pay attention to the way the words turn back into ink and disappear down the drain.”
― How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously
― How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously
“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
― A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
― A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
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