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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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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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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesnt help us know what to say. – Jonathan Sacks

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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds. – Jonathan Sacks

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Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. – Pieter Geyl, Debates With Historians

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. – Robert Frost

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I dont have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so Im left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct. – Vivienne Westwood

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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. – Thomas Carlyle

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