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Israel Shenker has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
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Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every…
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America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered…
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward…
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At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when…
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God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.
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A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to…
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It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or…
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Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from…
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of…
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Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning…
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A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would…
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
— Joan Baez
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
— Joseph Addison
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real…
— Phillips Brooks
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It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
— Muhammad Ali
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
— Paulo Coelho
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness;…
— Teresa of Avila
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We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others... Generally,…
— Clayton Christensen
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Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me…
— Charles Webster Hawthorne
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I am what everybody in my past don't want me to be
— Drake
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about…
— Mother Teresa
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The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you…
— Rajneesh
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