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"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."

"I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.”Lurie, i..."

"...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately construc..."

"History never repeats itself, historians do."

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

"The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion."

"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."

"They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!"

"Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published."

"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all ..."