"Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no."

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Source : Norman Lamm (2002). “Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith”, p.222, KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

Norman Lamm

#Commitment Quotes #Stifling Quotes #Notion Quotes

“Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'”
“We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.”
“The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.”
“Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.”
“I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ***** off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.”
“Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself”
“In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.”
“I have a friend who actually told me that she'd rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she'll order a salad. If I order a salad, she'll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she'll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she's down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.”

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