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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 money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20…
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I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
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A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving,…
— H E Bates
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Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
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If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way…
— Grant Morrison
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One of the things that has changed my life—and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality—is meditating.…
— Sheryl Crow
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline,…
— Alan Perlis
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The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a…
— Alexander Kotov
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Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are…
— Mary Pipher
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The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions,…
— Carl Sagan
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