Moses Mendelssohn Quotes
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
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The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.
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I like pushing boundaries.
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To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
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...education is the key to health and to social progress. The fact is that the average expectation of life of an Indian has doubled since Independence. In fact, it is 61 years now as against 28 or 30 years at the time of Independence.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.
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Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
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Without faith your mind gets fouled. Look at Cervantes. He was a man of faith and nothing fouled Cervantes, not even war and slavery. He wrote the first part of Don Quixote in prison.
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In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.
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London, dirty little pool of life.
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If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
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Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
