Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits - Michael Novak

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It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.

Michael Novak

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

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Everything I do that I'm enthusiastic about. This is genuine enthusiasm. If I don't - I mean I've done other projects that I have not been a fan of until I realized I was doing it and I wasn't really there. And I don't do those anymore.

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Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

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Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

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