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jewish marry truth
To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister. Amy Heckerling
jewish-tradition giving vampire
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. Calvin Trillin
jewish-values vision important
The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important. Avigdor Lieberman
jewish lives misfortune sort streets three writer
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced. S. Ansky
jewish onstage terrified willie york
I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified. Lesley Ann Warren
jewish people power regarded treated
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. Noam Chomsky
jewish-history auschwitz
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz. Romain Gary
jewish-tradition views catholic
It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church. Michael Sandel
jewish liked music people sort stopping weddings
People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.
people everyday passing-away
You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives. Charles Dickens
people literature may
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
people words-of-wisdom facts
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
people coats holiness
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
reason rhetoric foe
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.
reason
Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest. Charles Spurgeon
reason event-horizon lacking
We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Alan Moore
reason-why silent reason
There's a reason why the form was originally silent David Henry Hwang
reason shirts irrational
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational. Barry Commoner
reason shares sold
The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11. Jeffrey Skilling
reason violent expeditions
The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason. William Shakespeare
reason inequality seems
Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.
reason
Love reasons without reason.
sake leisure hopeless
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work. Bob Black
sake endeavor communicate
Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others? Benjamin Franklin
sake privilege spirit
We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours. Bill Johnson
sake sees wants
It's not that he wants to be friends with the U.S. for friendship's sake, he does it for Russia's sake -- as he sees it.
sake fame
Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down. David Giuntoli
sake
Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake! Jan Karon
sake
It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was. Jane Austen
sake mud politician
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal. Boris Yeltsin
sake time
The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time. Tina Fey
torah summit
Faith is the summit of the Torah. Solomon Ibn Gabirol