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I didnt want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didnt want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. – Lionel Blue

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My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. – Lionel Blue

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Religion
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I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen. – Lionel Blue

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Experience
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The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. – Lionel Blue

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My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. – Evita Peron

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Fear

The scariest thought in the world is that someday Ill wake up and realize Ive been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. – George Saunders

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Fear

Realists do not fear the results of their study. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Ill think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? Thats the only fear I have for myself. – Sugar Ray Leonard

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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

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There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. – Timothy Geithner

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May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz

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