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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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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is…
— Albert Camus
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War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.
— Barack Obama
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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed…
— George Bernard Shaw
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There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am…
— Unknown Author
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by…
— Maimonides
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The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in…
— Adolf Hitler
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One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem.…
— Enrico Fermi
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We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
— David Whyte
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Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many…
— Robert Fulton
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