"The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless."

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Source : Jerome Frank (1977). “A man's reach: the philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank”, Greenwood Pub Group

Jerome Frank

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“We eat light, drink it in through our skins”
“If [God] has work for me to do, I cannot die.”
“I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.”
“I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.”
“If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.”
“And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.”
“Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.”
“I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.”

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