Jonathan Sacks Quotes

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

Jonathan Sacks

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I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

John Gurdon

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Running a marathon is something I've always wanted to do.

Jennie Finch

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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

Jeff Kinney

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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

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It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

Soledad O'Brien

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When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.

Steven Wright

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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Sidney Hook

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When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you can just calm down and see where it's going, you'll be okay. Then you become more relaxed.

Julia Roberts

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The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.

Doc Rivers

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The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

Deepak Chopra

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