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Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years

by Israel Shahak

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Aug 20, 2014 11:32AM

“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

tags: bigotry, religion

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“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
― Andrew Carnegie

tags: books, community, enrich, libraries

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“Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: agitation, community, contribution, difference, happiness, overrated

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“Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny