"As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan."

-- Jan Schakowsky

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“Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.”

Source : Deborah Feldman (2014). “Exodus: A Memoir”, p.75, Penguin
“Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.”
“The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.”
“I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.”
“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”
“The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cashâ€¦nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.”
“I like the present and tomorrow”
“It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.”

Source : David Hume, Stuart D. Warner, Donald W. Livingston (1994). “Hume: Political Writings”, p.253, Hackett Publishing

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