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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 middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for…
— Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
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Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but,…
— Isabelle Huppert
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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to…
— Gautama Buddha
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People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment…
— Wolf Kahn
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Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is…
— Marcel Proust
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The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly…
— Israel Shenker
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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was…
— Oscar Wilde
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The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a…
— Jane Austen
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I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call…
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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One man's trash is another man's treasure, One man's pain is another man's pleasure, One damn thing you can't change is the…
— J. Cole
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If one loves someone because it gives pleasure, one should not be regarded as loving that person at all.
— Ritu Ghatourey
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