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The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.
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Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.
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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
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There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.
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The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.
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Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
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The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
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Einstein said it most famously: 'Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.'1
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Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.
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Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
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The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
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Uncritical followership and habits of silent obedience give rise to the corruptions of power, or sometimes simply to avoidable catastrophes. For
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Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
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God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
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Without God, there is a danger that we will stay trapped within the prison of the self. As
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Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
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The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.
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When human beings try to become more than human, they quickly become less than human.
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A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.
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the recent novel by his wife Rebecca Goldstein, entitled 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, subtitled A Work of Fiction). The
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Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.
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Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
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God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
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The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
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I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
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Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.
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No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.
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Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
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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?
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Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else.
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Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
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If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
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In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
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Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
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When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.
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While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
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Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.
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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.
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Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
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The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
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The supreme religious challenge is to see God's image in one who is not in our image.
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With wealth comes responsibility.
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Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin
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Giving is what makes a nation great.
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Defining yourself as a victim is ultimately a diminution of what makes us human. It teaches us to see ourselves as objects, not subjects.
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Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
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The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
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For each of us there is a Jordan we will not cross. Once
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Freedom ... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less
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As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
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To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
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Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.
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The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.
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After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.
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The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.
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