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

— Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks

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Optimism is the belief that things will get better. Hope is the faith that, together, we can make things better.

The Dignity of Difference (2003)

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.

The Authorised Daily Prayer Book (2006)

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

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.

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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

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The best way to worship God is to love your wife.

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