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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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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
— Karl Kraus
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
— Branch Rickey
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
— Horace
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The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man.…
— Philip Johnson
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Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
— Unknown Author
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Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.
— Stanley Fish
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
— Alexander Cockburn
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She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was…
— Edna O'Brien
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Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
— Ravi Zacharias
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The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
— Eric Temple Bell
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Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden…
— Learned Hand
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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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