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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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