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Other Quotes by Harold S. Kushner
- Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
- Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no…
- But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice…
- None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other…
- There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.
- Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice,…
- Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating…
- Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities…
- It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives…
- The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on…
- Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
- If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour