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ID:132
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven

  - Neil SimonTopics: life
ID:133
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

  - Neil SimonTopics: humor education
ID:134
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

  - Rod SerlingTopics: science
ID:135
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

  - Rod SerlingTopics: science
ID:136
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

  - Isaac SternTopics: music
ID:137
Sports is the toy department of human life.

  - Howard CosellTopics: humor life
ID:138
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  - Irving BerlinTopics: life
ID:139
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  - Irving BerlinTopics: wisdom life
ID:140
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

  - Leonard BernsteinTopics: music
ID:141
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

  - Leonard BernsteinTopics: wisdom business and money
ID:142
You shall not close your hand against your needy kinsman.

  - Deuteronomy (Devarim) 15:7Topics: charity justice and law Torah/Bible/Tanach
ID:143
Blessed be he who considers the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the day of trouble.

  - Psalms/Tehillim 41:2Topics: charity justice and law
ID:144
Almsgiving delivers from death.

  - Proverbs (Mishle) 10:2Topics: charity death
ID:145
Who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord.

  - Proverbs (Mishle) 19:17Topics: charity justice and law
ID:146
Water will quench a flame and almsgiving atones for sins.

  - Ben Sira 3:30Topics: charity sin and repentance
ID:147
Who gives charity makes a thankoffering.

  - Ben Sira 35:2Topics: charity
ID:148
If you have abundance, give alms accordingly to match; if you have but a little, fear not to give accordingly.

  - Tobit 4:8Topics: charity
ID:149
Charity outweighs all other commandments.

  - Talmud, Bava BatraTopics: charity justice and law Torah/Bible/Tanach
ID:150
Who gives charity in secret is greater than Moses.

  - Talmud, Bava BatraTopics: charity
ID:151
To him that is eager to give, the Lord provides the means.

  - Talmud, Bava BatraTopics: charity
ID:152
Great is charity because it brings Redemption nearer!

  - Talmud, Bava BatraTopics: charity
ID:153
Even a poor man living on charity should give charity.

  - Talmud, GittinTopics: charity
ID:165
Who disregards charity is as one that serves idols.

  - Talmud, KetubotTopics: charity
ID:166
Look, the Israelite people are much too many for us. Let us then deal shrewdly with them, lest they increase!

  - Exodus (Shmot) 1: 9,10Topics: Israel anti-Semitism
ID:167
Come let us wipe them out as a nation, let the name of Israel be remembered no more!

  - Psalms (Tehillim) 83:5Topics: Israel anti-Semitism
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