"Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community."

-- Noah Feldman

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“Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.”
“When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.”
“In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.”

Source : George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”
“Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.”
“The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.”

Source : "Kaitlin Olson, Tualatin native, stars in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. September 15, 2010.
“You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.”
“If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.”
“By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars. Throughout our two hundred plus years, public policy debate has focused on political and economic issues, on which there can be compromise. . . .”

Source : Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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