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David Malter: Ideas should be fought with ideas, not blind passion.

David Malter: I learned a long time ago that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of a life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant...A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

David Malter: Human beings do not live forever. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye if you measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye.

David Malter: As you grow older, you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them -- 'ordinary things' is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

Mr. Savo: Anyone out to clop you doesn't want you to duck.

David Malter: The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other?
Reuven Malter: Choose a friend.

David Malter: No one knows how fortunate he is until he becomes unfortunate.

Frank: Hilary Clinton tends to navigate to a version of feminism that is a straight synonym of “meritocracy,” that is concerned almost exclusively with the struggle of professional women to rise as high as their talents will take them. No ceilings!

Frank: Many of our most vaunted innovations are simply methods—electronic or otherwise—of pulling off some age-old profit-maximizing maneuver by new and unregulated means. Sometimes they are designed to accomplish things that would be regulated or illegal under other circumstances ...

Frank: Thus did the Party of the People turn the government over to Wall Street in the years after Wall Street has done such lasting damage to ... well, the People.

Frank: If our goal is to rescue the reputation of a hero who turned out to have feet, this is surely the way to go. Ocean liners are hard to turn. Presidents don’t have a lot of power. Republicans are in league with the devil. If what we are concerned with is inequality, however, it would behoove us to admit the obvious forthrightly: Obama could have done many things differently ...