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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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Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of…
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats…
— Franz Kafka
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no…
— William Hazlitt
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should…
— Bertrand Russell
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He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable…
— Ernst Engel
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But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the…
— George Washington
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We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of…
— Sigmund Freud
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As for the Folsom Prison show, ... would anybody have the guts to do that show now 50 Cent, maybe I think…
— James Mangold
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Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by…
— Karl Popper
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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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