Erica Jong Quotes
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
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In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
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No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.
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Circumstances will determine what I term the survival value of humankind’s moral compass. Being highly moral in an immoral environment will almost certainly be detrimental to one’s survival and vice versa.
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Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.
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As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite - for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.
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We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.
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My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.
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I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.
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Doctors engage patients in one-way conversations in which they ask only enough questions to make a diagnosis and sometimes make misdiagnoses because they don’t ask enough questions before they begin to tell patients what they should do.
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I remember a Stephen Harper once upon a time... You've become what you used to oppose... Mr. Harper, what happened to you? What changed?
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Television is the triumph of machine over people.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
