Deborah Lipstadt quotes

Deborah Lipstadt quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them.”
-- Deborah Lipstadt

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“If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.”
-- Deborah Lipstadt

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“Let us never stop being vigilant about the Oys which face us. But let us never turn them into our raison d'etre. Let us also celebrate the JOYS.”
-- Deborah Lipstadt

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“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.”
“When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.”
“The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.”

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“Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous.”
“...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it...”
“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”
“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

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“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
“Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.”
“Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.”

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