I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
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Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
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We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
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