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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
— William S. Burroughs
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I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in…
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When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian,…
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
— Fred Allen
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Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
— Juhani Pallasmaa
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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but…
— Mary McCarthy
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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not…
— Max Lucado
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