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Religion survives because it answers three questions that every re

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? – Jonathan Sacks

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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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Freedom
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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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Freedom
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If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow. – Jonathan Sacks

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History
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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken. – Lemuel K. Washburn

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Religion

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. – Johan Huizinga

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Religion

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays… bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it. – John Updike, A Month of Sundays, 1975

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Religion

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. – Serj Tankian

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Religion

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What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. – Bernard Williams

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Humor

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, Oh, Grover Norquist has power. No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue. – Grover Norquist

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Politics

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Toms Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. – Carl Clinton Van Doren

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Sympathy

Many seek good nights and lose good days. РDutch Proverb [Quoted in P.J. Harrebom̩e, Spreekwoordenboek der Nederlandsche t

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Party Invitation