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There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

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Barbara Tuchman

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

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Books are humanity in print.

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Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

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