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Jonathan Sacks Quotes

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Jonathan Sacks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: british
Birth: March 8, 1948

Topics

Alone Past Government Society Deep

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

Ann Coulter

Peace Blessed Prosperity President

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.

Meriwether Lewis

Woman Child Medicine Back She Corn

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

Stephen Gardiner

Influence Country Crisis Outcome Had

My idea is bring in good people and then get out of their way.

Rocky Wirtz

Good People Good People Way Out Get

Take a martial art that you enjoy. Don't worry about the end result; just enjoy getting up and going to training. And there is no right martial art to do. They are all good.

Robert Whittaker

Good Art Training End Worry Result

I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work.

Rumaan Alam

Work Myself I Am Throw Writer Binge

You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

Phil Knight

Simple You Explain Michael Jordan

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Peter Jackson

Yourself Filmmaking Movies Honest

In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the most extraordinary, happy times of my life. Apart from the horrendous Queensland police, who were corrupt and venal, it really was like living in paradise.

Peter Carey

Life Police Woman Happy Fruit Trees

Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing.

Sebastian Coe

Writing Big Interviewing Again Stuff

It's important that when you do standup, you do small places like coffee shops and also big places like colleges. It helps you find the little nuances in your set that don't work, and you can shave off the excess.

Tig Notaro

Work Coffee Small You Find Places

The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column for me.

Kenya Barris

Life Goals Me American Holiday