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"In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don’t.) Einstein …"

"Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their…"

"Communism always had sympathetic Westerners who amounted to a fifth column, including communist parties and intellect…"

"There's something in the Western psyche, especially the Western liberal, pluralistic psyche, that finds it impossible…"

"Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall ch…"

"Israel is different. In Israel the great temptation of modernity — assimilation — simply does not exist. Israel is th…"

"Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extr…"

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