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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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Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
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Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the…
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The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer…
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As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s...You are more self-assured about…
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If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals,…
— Frans de Waal
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It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true…
— Frans de Waal
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind
— Ednita Nazario
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In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two…
— George Mikes
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The truth about myself? I'm obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours…
— Unknown Author
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Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in…
— Ron Suskind
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If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love…
— Neko Case
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Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation…
— Jane Austen
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