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In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

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Jonathan Sacks
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: March 8
Died: 2020
Died: November 7
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Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
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