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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.
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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
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You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
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This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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How should they answer?
