It was not a good idea. It did not take into consideration the relations between Christianity and Judaism. I decided that there will be no performance because we must stick to the message of the museum, which is truth, memory, reconciliation.
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This is a very brave project. EDWARD BALAWEJDER The person of wisdom is the person of years. EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children. EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them. EDWARD If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n... EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county. EDWARD HOPPER I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting. EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu... EDWARD HOPPER Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before... EDWARD HOPPER I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio... EDWARD HOPPER In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati... EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ... EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of... EDWARD HOPPER My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress... EDWARD HOPPER The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea... EDWARD HOPPER No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. EDWARD HOPPER There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. EDWARD HOPPER Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. EDWARD HOPPER Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ... EDWARD HOPPER After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a... EDWARD HOPPER More of me comes out when I improvise. EDWARD HOPPER What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. EDWARD HOPPER The only real influence I've ever had was myself. EDWARD HOPPER We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. EDWARD BOND There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l... EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic. EDWARD ALBERT I am all for the short and merry life. EDWARD FITZGERALD I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o... EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu... EDWARD DMYTRYK He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope. EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th... EDWARD BOND All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ... EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. EDWARD GREY If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. EDWARD HOPPER My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c... EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua... EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. EDWARD HIRSCH The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but... EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens. EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves. EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! - Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat... EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight. EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a... EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death. EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly... EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years. EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa... EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
... EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ... EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str... EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ... JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ... EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called... EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori... EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and... EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as... EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass... EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have... EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick...... EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go. EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa... EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains. EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whate... EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart. EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan... EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam... EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings. EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi... EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ... EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe... EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem. EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin... EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از... EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h... EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig... EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust. EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei... EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ... EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lou... EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c... EDWARD RUSCHA I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac... EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low. EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes. EDWARD YOUNG The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ... EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. EDWARD RICKENBACKER The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th... EDWARD GIBBON It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d... EDWARD GIBBON True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy... EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life. EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin... EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you... EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing. EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:... EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress. EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha... EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i... EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a... EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te... EDWARD ABBEY Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i... EDWARD BELLAMY For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope... EDWARD MORRIS I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ... EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. EDWARD LEAR When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk... EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is. EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. 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EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse... EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski... EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a... EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o... EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ... EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w... EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda... EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp... EDWARD GIBBON Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu... EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. EDWARD GIBBON Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the... EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr... EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability. EDWARD DYSON Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis... EDWARD DAHLBERG When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u... EDWARD TELLER Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. EDWARD EDWARDS The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. EDWARD GIBBON Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. EDWARD GIBBON Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b... EDWARD DAHLBERG To write is a humiliation. EDWARD DAHLBERG What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden... EDWARD DAHLBERG Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. EDWARD DAHLBERG The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ... EDWARD BLISHEN By night an atheist half believes in God. EDWARD YOUNG You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h... EDWARD DAHLBERG Our birth is nothing but our death begun. EDWARD YOUNG If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po... EDWARD RICKENBACKER Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders... EDWARD HOAGLAND You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ... EDWARD STEICHEN I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. EDWARD DAHLBERG We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. EDWARD GIBBON Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife... EDWARD HOAGLAND There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of ... EDWARD HOAGLAND Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of ... EDWARD DAHLBERG Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. EDWARD EVERETT Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borr... EDWARD BLISHEN I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. EDWARD GIBBON What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore. EDWARD DAHLBERG Every decision you make is a mistake. EDWARD DAHLBERG The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the sub... EDWARD GIBBON Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is... EDWARD DAHLBERG It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a... EDWARD DAHLBERG Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire... EDWARD DAHLBERG Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enig... EDWARD DAHLBERG Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. EDWARD DOWDEN The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. EDWARD SIMMONS The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. EDWARD GIBBON If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem. EDWARD GARDNER All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. EDWARD GIBBON None think the great unhappy, but the great. EDWARD YOUNG