"Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer."

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Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

Israel Shenker

#Hero Quotes #Self Quotes #Passionate Quotes

“The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.”
“Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'”

Source : "Get To Know iCarly's Nathan Kress". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 2, 2012.
“Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.”

Source : George Porter's Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1967.
“All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.”
“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”
“Real leadership is not about prestige, power, or status. It is about responsibility.”
“People will support that which they help to create.”
“When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.”

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