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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 wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is…
— John Berger
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift…
— Ambrose Bierce
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
— Lucretius
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the…
— Benjamin Rush
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The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for…
— Bartolome de las Casas
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A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their…
— Kevin Mattson
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Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some…
— Richard Dawkins
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I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without…
— Harry S. Truman
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Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places.…
— Gautama Buddha
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your…
— Socrates
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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
— Gilbert Highet
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Gold is a deep-persuading orator.
— Richard Barnfield
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