"It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality."
-Alan Dershowitz
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"I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes."
-Alan Dershowitz
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"Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom."
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"It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state."
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"We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs."
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"I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political."
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
-Virginia Woolf
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
-Mother Teresa
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"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
-Pythagoras
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"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
-Lana Del Rey
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
-Marvin Gaye
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Earhart
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