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• ‟ The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

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• ‟ Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

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• ‟ It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

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• ‟ I'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.

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• ‟ When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.

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• ‟ Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me.

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• ‟ I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.

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