"When you turn the discussion onto talk of……" — Arthur Hertzberg
"When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist."
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Arthur Hertzberg
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19 Quotes by Arthur Hertzberg
Arthur Hertzberg has 19 quotes on this site.
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What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates?…
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I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.
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A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without…
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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never…
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But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises…
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How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
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In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching…
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On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the…
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You save your soul by saving someone else's body.
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish…
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I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.
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I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope…
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More Ardent Quotes
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
— Robert Benchley
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
— Theodore Bikel
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect…
— David Brainerd
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion…
— Edmund Burke
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
— Sam Abell
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
— Pete Dye
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The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those…
— Alexander Hamilton
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
— Plutarch
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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