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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Mean Real Voice
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Archive Care Fellowship Fullness Help Other People
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Evil Good Indifference Opposite
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Gravest Hatred Man Minimum Racism Reason Threat
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Cease Evil Individual Morning Sunshine
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Agree Consciousness Knowing Man Normal Real Responsiveness Sensibility State Stupor Wholly
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Leg Lip March Montgomery Prayer Selma Song Walking
Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Competition Face Moment Result Sacred Task

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