"My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is."

-- Arthur Hertzberg

#Looks Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Stories Quotes

“eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.”

Source : "Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.
“It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates.”
“Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!”
“Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.”
“In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.140, Penguin
“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
“He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.”

Source : Leon Trotsky (2000). “Their Morals and Ours: The Marxist View of Morality”, p.23, Resistance Books
“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.”

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