Quote by Jonathan Sacks
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. – Jonathan Sacks

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Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely thats not too much to ask. – Jonathan Sacks

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Technology
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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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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, What happened? but rather, How then shall I live? And its only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. – Jonathan Sacks

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If youre not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary. – Malcolm X

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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. – Walter Lippmann

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Freedom is mans capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. – Rollo May

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This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. – Charles Olson

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I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. – Rene Descartes

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