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Since ancient times, in every place they have ever lived, Jews have represented the frightening prospect of freedom. As long as Jews existed in any society, there was evidence that it in fact wasn’t necessary to believe what everyone else believed, that those who disagreed with their neighbors could survive and even flourish against all odds. The
... See moreDara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
This is really the form that the dilemma takes. It is not solely a question of keeping the body alive; it is rather how not to be killed. Not to be killed becomes the great end, and morality takes its meaning from that center. Until that center is shifted, nothing real can be accomplished. It is the uncanny and perhaps unwitting recognition of this
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
You will watch your parents die and be buried. You will watch your newborn child emerge in a messy circus of heaving grunts and high-pitched wailing. You will watch your dreams and projects dashed, only to wake the next day and greet the fruits of your failure anew and cobble a life out of them all the same. You will punctuate the cavalcade of
... See moreThis is why most people choose doctors in whom they have confidence. A patient’s
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
He now believed the desire to live to be more than philosophy, more than psychology, but rather, a primordial principle of physics.
Olivie Blake • The Atlas Paradox (Atlas Series Book 2)
