Jonathan Sacks Quotes
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
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God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
