Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?


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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its eff...
NORMAN COUSINS
Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
NORMAN COUSINS
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, ...
NORMAN TEBBIT
Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterran...
NORMAN MAILER
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it ap...
NORMAN PODHORETZ
we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
NORMAN MACEWAN
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important ...
GREG NORMAN
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and h...
NORMAN MAILER
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
NORMAN MAILER
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only b...
NORMAN MAILER
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from th...
NORMAN MAILER
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dag...
NORMAN COUSINS
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form ...
NORMAN COUSINS
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
NORMAN MACEWAN
That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith's ru...
PHILIP NORMAN
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining ...
NORMAN MAILER
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
History is a vast early warning system.
NORMAN COUSINS
Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too l...
GREG NORMAN
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...
NORMAN MAILER
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
NORMAN MAILER
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juice...
NORMAN MAILER
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to l...
NORMAN COUSINS
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the...
NORMAN COUSINS
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead thems...
NORMAN TEBBIT
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The w...
NORMAN COUSINS
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptio...
NORMAN MAILER
Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives ...
NORMAN COUSINS
If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t...
NORMAN AUGUSTINE
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the w...
NORMAN MAILER