Quote by Jonathan Sacks
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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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives. – Jonathan Sacks

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Change
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Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. – Jonathan Sacks

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Faith
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past. – Jonathan Sacks

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alone
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History
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Life isnt meant to be easy. Its hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess Im something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

I like American history. – Kevin Costner

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History

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. – Dean Kamen

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History

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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History

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The end of labor is to gain leisure. – Aristotle

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Labor Day

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. – James Madison

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Government

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on ones opponent. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Truth

You have citizens who dont understand how government works and theyre kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Government