Abba Hillel Silver Quotes
There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
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Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.
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While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
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Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
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I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.
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Excellent in every way around the glens The two skilful ones make inquiries
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We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
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Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
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There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.