Quote by Jonathan Sacks
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Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good… There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. – 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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In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. – 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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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. – T. S. Eliot

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Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel Im nothing without it. – Nicole Scherzinger

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Faith is never identical with piety. – Karl Barth

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Teach us to give and not to count the cost. – Saint Ignatius

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A good conscience is a continual Christmas. – Benjamin Franklin

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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

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IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments. – John Patrick

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