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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine com

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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Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression. – Jonathan Sacks

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Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: its more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. – Jonathan Sacks

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Follow your passion. Nothing – not wealth, success, accolades or fame – is worth spending a lifetime doing things you dont enjoy. – Jonathan Sacks

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World history is a court of judgment. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with. – Jeanne Moreau

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My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced. – Henry Louis Gates

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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort

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I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and Ill continue to do that. – Moira Kelly

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I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough theyd take sympathy on me. – Daniel Johns

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