Quote by Jonathan Sacks
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us n

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow. – Jonathan Sacks

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True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. – Jonathan Sacks

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Freedom
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Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. – Jonathan Sacks

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Business
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What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. – Jonathan Sacks

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Change
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Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow. – Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers

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History

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? – Manuel Puig

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History
[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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History
[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination of the living. – William Carlos Williams

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History

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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Restraint

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. – Edith Hamilton

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Poetry

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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Watergate

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. – Ken Thompson

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Beauty