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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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“You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them,”
― The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
― The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“The saving of a life is equal in merit to the saving of the world. So it is said, he who saves one life saves a world. Yet if this was so, then what exactly was meant by world? Were there worlds of different size and merit? Or was the world of one soul as capacious as the world that contained all of creation—infinite, even? Was Ester’s world, peopled by her parents and her brother, equal to all the others God had created?”
― The Weight of Ink
― The Weight of Ink
“What Jewish law wants is an ongoing conversation between man and G-d, and between man and man--but most of all, between man and himself. It's not a command, exactly, but a conversation: an inner song, full of melody and refrain, sometimes heard only by what Rabbi Soloveitchik so movingly called the lonely man of faith”
― The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
― The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
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