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Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years

by Israel Shahak

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“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: community, effort, friendship, happiness, spontaneity

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“Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.”
― Alan Sakowitz, Miles Away... Worlds Apart

tags: business-ethics, character, community, family, financial-thriller, inspirational, integrity, leadership, personal-responsibility, true-crime

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“Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

tags: bigotry, coercion, controlling, diversity, extremism, freedom, harmony, morality, peace-on-earth, political-domination, politics, power, prejudice, prosperity, religious-freedom, religious-tolerance

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“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
― Andrew Carnegie

tags: books, community, enrich, libraries

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“It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say something & having the moral right not to be held accountable for what you say. Being asked to apologise for saying something unconscionable is not the same as being stripped of the legal right to say it. It’s really not very f-cking complicated. Cry “free speech” in such contexts, you are demanding the right to speak any bilge you wish without apology or fear of comeback. You are demanding not legal rights but an end to debate about and criticism of what you say. When did bigotry get so needy?”
― China Miéville

tags: accountability, bigotry, freedom-of-speech, whining

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