"To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty"

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Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.72, Northwestern University Press

Phyllis Bottome

#Wise Quotes #Strong Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?”
“I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.”
“Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.”
“This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.”
“The objective is to do things well in London.”
“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”
“Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.”

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