Jonathan Sacks Quotes

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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LifeTimeSoulSpaceControlMedia

Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

Robert Kennedy

JusticeResponsibilityLawGoLiving

Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.

Ann Nocenti

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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If a future U.S. president were to refuse to defend an ally under attack, NATO would lose all credibility.

Jeanne Shaheen

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Updike

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Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

Steven Levy

Scientific MethodScientificMethod

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.

Sloane Stephens

BestPlayWantTennisGrand

The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.

Mary McAleese

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We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

Minnie Pearl

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The cage is bigger than the ring, and it's a little bit different.

Mirko Cro Cop

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No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Jared Polis

FearLiveFireIdentityAmerican

If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.

Deeyah Khan

WomenFutureValueKeyProjectCore

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