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If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, What happened? but rather, How then shall I live? And it is only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I did not have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I am the most sampled artist in history.

I do not seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History Does not help me. Precedents do not inform my experience.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.