Ben Rosenfield Quotes
Last night I didn't realize I said "abortion" in my stand up comedy act instead of "circumcision." No wonder I got blank stares at "rabbi got faint at sight of blood."
Ben Rosenfield
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi
England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
Fidel Castro
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
Octavio Paz
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
Octavia E. Butler
Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
Harrison Ford
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
Ted Kotcheff
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
Fawn Hall
Thou art I, I am Thou,Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!
Paramahansa Yogananda
A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.
Wendell Berry
Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.
Sam Keen