"When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years."

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Source : Isidore Epstein, Joseph Herman Hertz (1935). “The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma”

Joseph Hertz

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“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”
“Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You will never become rich, until you hate poverty”
“Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll be very soon in our public schools all across the state, beginning in kindergarten.”

Source : "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.
“Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.”
“He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.”
“...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.”

Source : Louis Bromfield (1957). “The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .”
“...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.”

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