"One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is a Jewish culture, a Jewish religion, but there is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. The Jews were a component basically of two civilizations. In the Western world, we talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition and you talk about the Judeo-Islamic tradition because there were large and important Jewish communities living in the lands of Islam."

-- Bernard Lewis

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“Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Wild Rose”, p.235, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.”
“The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error.”

Source : "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 60, 1843.
“I don't even think about the money when I consider roles, I turn it over to my agency. Money will come. I respect it but I don't thirst for it. I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.”

Source : "'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Walter White: 'He's Well on His Way to Badass'" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 16, 2011.
“The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
“Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .”
“No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.”
“Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.”

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