Stephen Samuel Wise famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
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Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.
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Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.
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"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."
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That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.
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Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
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It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
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An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.
-- Stephen Samuel Wise
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
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Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.
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Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
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One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
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