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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 danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they…
— Thomas Paine
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They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing…
— Gautama Buddha
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Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.
— Gautama Buddha
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The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only…
— David Berlinski
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When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the…
— Upton Sinclair
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth…
— Plato
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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…
— Israel Shenker
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If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel…
— Samuel Garth
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Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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