Solomon Schechter quotes
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“You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.”
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“In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man ... [T]here is no occasion at all for pitying Mrs. Gaon. ... Saints are happy in their suffering, and noble souls find their happiness in sacrificing themselves for these sufferers.”
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“Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.”
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“By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.”
-- Solomon SchechterSource : Solomon Schechter (1909). “Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln Centennial Celebration of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America”
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“Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.”
-- Solomon SchechterSource : Solomon Schechter (1970). “Studies in Judaism: Essays on Persons, Concepts, and Movements of Thought in Jewish Tradition”
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“Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.”
-- Solomon SchechterSource : Solomon Schechter (1908). “Inaugural Address of Solomon Schechter as President of the Faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America: Delivered November 20, 1902”
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“Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.”
-- Solomon Schechter
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“Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
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“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Source : Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.
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“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”
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“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “This Book Will Save Your Life”, p.29, Granta Books
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