Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art. - Joyce Carol Oates - Quotesmemo.com

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. . . Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured--today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

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. . . Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured--today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.

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