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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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To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things -…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for…
— Eric Cantor
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When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't,…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
— William Penn
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I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
— Evelyn Underhill
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all…
— Henri Poincare
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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his…
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for…
— Leo Buscaglia
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