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The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.
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We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.


Edmond Rostand
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
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The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
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Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.


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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.


Freeman Dyson
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.


Norman Cousins
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.


Zubin Mehta
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.


Alex Rocco
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I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out.


Roseanne Barr
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.


Bebe Neuwirth
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Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.


David Mallet
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.


Charles de Montesquieu
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.


Irving Paul Lazar
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?


Billy Connolly
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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.


Gloria Steinem
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