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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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If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject.…
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When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on…
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Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on…
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It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the…
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I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative…
— W. Eugene Smith
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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get…
— Andy Rooney
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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb…
— Werner Herzog
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A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
— Andy Rooney
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I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting…
— Edwin Markham
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