"It is much harder to live a life of freedom and self-rule than to be ruled by others." ~~ Mordechai Kaplan
"Rain is the husband of the earth." ~~ Talmud, Ta’anit
"There is no greater danger to a new truth than an old error." ~~ Jacob Klatzkin
"If you are always afraid of misfortune, you will miss happiness." ~~ Perloff
"The historian’s special interest in the Jewish nation is due to its being the only one that is met with at evey turn of history." ~~ James Darmsteter
"The fruit of boasting is hatred." ~~ Mivchar Hapeninim
"The dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God Who gave it. " ~~ Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) 12:7
"There is a silence whose sound travels from one end of the world to the other." ~~ Benyamin Galai
"The heart sees better than the eye." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"Can there be a banquet without preparations?" ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"Had the people of the generation of the Flood and the people of Sodom given charity, they would not have been destroyed." ~~ Midrash Zuta
"The talk of the child in the street is that of his father or mother at home." ~~ Talmud, Sotah
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