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Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.

Zygmunt Bauman

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest
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Decency Judging Weakest
Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.
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Country Diaspora London Person
With every death, a world is disappearing.
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Death Disappear World
Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a rising number of people today, it is quite normal to “try and err”, marry, divorce, marry again.
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Divorce Number People
Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.
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Interpretation Introduction Page
We are already and will remain all in the same boat.
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Already Boat Happen Reamain
As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.
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Long Minorities Taken
The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.
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Forever Planet Shoulder
All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.
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Happens Skill Sociological
Being condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny.
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Destiny Fate Togetherness
I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.
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Humanity Moral Worry
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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Book Thinking Writing
Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.
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Long Moving People
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
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Holocaust Risk Sin
Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.
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Function Mean People
We already have – thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work – enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don’t have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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Greed Skill Technology

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