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" There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds. "

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Self-Confidence

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" What the Internet offers is this completely unfiltered transmission of thought to thought, of psyche to psyche, and whatever you're feeling, you can just sort of put it down and send it out there, and you can do it all in the confines of your room, without any actual contact. "