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If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

— Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks

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Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

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The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

The first of the "request" prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

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We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

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