"Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe."

-- Jonathan Sacks

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“I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.”
“I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.”
“To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.”
“I shall not accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need.”
“The American people want to know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the government won't be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight terrorism, but we have to do it in away that protects American freedom.”
“Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.”

Source : 1960 In the NewYork Times, 29 Apr.
“Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?”
“I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.”

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