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		My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Haruki Murakami 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yair Lapid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackson Pollock 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Deutch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalie Portman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. E. Lawrence 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zac Efron 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chanakya 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Agnes de Mille 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To be fair, I don't have a lot of clothes and you know, Einstein had the same outfit, five different times because he didn't want to spend energy trying to decide what to wear every day. It's pointless. I have a shirt that I wear when I'm not on stage and then I have a sweaty shirt that is so disgusting it would blow your mind. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Endicott 
			 
			
				The Bravery  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pankaj Mishra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alain Badiou 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Haruki Murakami