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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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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely…
— Rowan Atkinson
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and…
— Henri Bergson
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
— Julie Burchill
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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for…
— Joseph Campbell
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part…
— Aberjhani
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is…
— John Dewey
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God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to…
— Louis Berkhof
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own…
— Saint Augustine
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The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in…
— Malcolm X
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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
— Bertrand Russell
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