"If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting."

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Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.40, Courier Corporation

Abraham Cahan

#Fasting Quotes #Study Quotes #Praying Quotes

“I've never recorded anything I didn't like.”
“In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
“There is no influence like the influence of habit.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.”
“Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.”
“There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.”
“Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”
“Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.”

Source : "Pay equality and strong unions will put Britain back to work" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2012.

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