"By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else."

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Source : Solomon Schechter (1909). “Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln Centennial Celebration of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America”

Solomon Schechter

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“Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.”

Source : Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications
“The more holy, the more humble.”
“And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.
“It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.”
“Let nothing be changed and all be different.”
“Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.”
“I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.”
“Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.”

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