"The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle."

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Source : Irving Greenberg (2011). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

Irving Greenberg

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“Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”
“The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.”
“The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.”
“Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy, and one for institutionalized mythology, thus recognizing both of them. For the philosophy of objective reason there is no such way out. Since it hold to the concept of objective truth, it must take a positive or a negative stand with regard to the content of established religion.”
“Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just... Jean: A little brat who swears a lot Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak Roy: Useless. Just useless Alphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that... Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!!”
“Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.”

Source : Song: Eyes Without A Face, Album: Rebel Yell, 1983
“Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.”
“I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.”

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