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“There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe.”—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“Everything is in the power of heaven except the awe and fear of heaven.”—Talmud, Berachot 33b
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“We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”—Winston Churchill
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“Since 1948 Arab leaders…have used the Palestine people for selfish political purposes. This is…criminal.”—King Hussein of Jordan, 1960
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“Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are beyond question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.”-–Winston Churchhill
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“Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God’s Book of Life.”—Rabbi…
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.” –CS Lewis
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“How should I like to visit Jerusalem some time.”-–Abraham Lincoln, talking to his wife
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“No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem.”—Winston Churchill
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“My hands shook as I started to unwrap one of them. I read a few sentences. It was written in beautiful biblical Hebrew. The language was like that of the Psalms, but the text was unknown to me. I looked and looked, and I suddenly had the feeling that I was privileged by destiny to…