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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 best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which…
— Walter Bagehot
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
— Alec Baldwin
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away…
— Dennis Banks
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But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.
— Stephen Breyer
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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
— Stephen Breyer
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You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.
— Dick Cheney
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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so…
— Marcello Malpighi
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its…
— Henry David Thoreau
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of…
— Joseph Conrad
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The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
— Walter Raleigh
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Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed…
— Unknown Author
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