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The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

— Abraham Isaac Kook

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Moses and Elijah are redeemers in a single redemption; the beginner and the ender, the opener and closer together fill the unit.

The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point.

A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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