"We are biological creatures. We are born, we……" — Jonathan Sacks
"We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty."
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116 Quotes by Jonathan Sacks
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Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you…
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Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were…
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Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.
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Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
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Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
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The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.
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