"Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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“The minority yields to the majority!”
“Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.”

Source : "Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.
“God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.”

Source : Bruce Wilkinson (2010). “The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life”, p.53, Multnomah
“But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.”
“Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.”
“My research shows that uncertainty about your income at older ages causes more depression, causes more anxiety, which could lead to more chronic heart failure, heart disease, does actually mean shorter lifespans.”
“Be kind. Be courteous. Love others and be happy. It's that simple.”
“Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 13, 2001.

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