Quotes Various

Goodness without knowledge, is impotent;
But knowledge without goodness, is dangerous.
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Interesting quote from:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25334489/
6-24-08

Doubts about GodInvestigation has found, that more than 25% of: Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants, and Orthodox Christians, expressed some doubts about God's existence; as did 60% of Jews.
Another finding, almost defies explanation: 21 percent of self-identified atheists said, they believe in God or a universal spirit; with 8 percent "absolutely certain" of it.
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"The Chazon Ish, zs'kl, said that Bnei Brak will not be damaged, because it is a place of Torah, and the Torah protects.

The Zohar Sheital
"If a woman covers her hair....her children will be superior...

Her husband will be blessed with spiritual, and material blessings: with wealth, children and grandchildren."
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The flower that blooms in adversity, is the most beautiful of all.

True ignorance, is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. Karl Popper

We have the most amount of (percentage-wise) compulsive disease in the world.
How do you know this?
Lang: I heard it from a shrink, I believe.

One can read a book many times; yet one will not understand its real meaning, until experience dawns, from within the person.

Avogadro's Number – That state, according to the laws of chemistry, where there is a limit to how many serial dilutions can be made, without losses to the original substance. Avogadro’s number is roughly, 10 to the 24th power.

Jews are not human beings, having a spiritual experience;
Jews are spiritual beings, having a human experience!

If you tell someone that you love them; then you tell them, that if they gain five pounds, you won’t love them; then you never really loved them, in the first place.

When you judge another, you don't define them, you define yourself.

Criticism, is the sincerest form, of autobiography.


William Blake: To see a World in a grain of sand, and Heaven in a wild flower; To hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,and Eternity in an hour.

Jews are like wives, they always have disagreements, but in the end, they still love each other!
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If one fails to plan, one plans to fail.
Chassidus illuminates the world, instead of eliminating it.

In 1935, the government of Persia requested of those countries, with which it had diplomatic relations, to call Persia "Iran;" which is the name of the country in Persian.
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What do married men want, more than anything else?Their wives to be happy. When ones wife is happy, everything else is great. If a person has everything in the world, but his wife is not happy, he has nothing.What does a married woman want, more than anything else?

To give 100% to her husband, but he must be attentive to her. Hashem loves us and wants to give us everything. But we need to be Bittle (open) enough, to create the proper kali (vessel), to hold his unlimited Brachas.
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Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Moshiach thought: The world (nature) was created to hide G-d, but Jews were created to reveal G-d. Moshiach reveals G-d, permanently.

The non-jewish religions had to force individuals to convert; but for non-Jews, Judaism, is strictly by choice.

Don't expect to build up the weak, by pulling down the strong." —Calvin Coolidge
When you want to find your soul, you first have to find the soul in another person.
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When the heart of one Jew beats with pain, the hearts of all the multitudes feel it as well.”
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Certain People...
In the period immediately before Moshiach, certain people of little faith will not listen to the call of those urging them to prepare for Moshiach.

They will argue, "After such a long and bitter exile...how is it possible that we will suddenly be redeemed?" Thus they will not listen to those who attempt to inspire them.

(The Chofetz Chaim--Tzipita L'Yshua)
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When the great Gaon Rav Meshulam Igra was sick, the people beseeched Hashem with Tefila to spare his life. Their tefilos went unanswered and Rav Meshulam was niftar.

Seeing the disappointment of the people the Chasam Sofer stood up to be Maspid him as follows. He told a Mashal of a broken ax trying to chop down a tree. The mightiest logger can swing away all day at the tree but if the ax is broken it will not help.

Surely said the Chasam Sofer, when people gather to daven with Kavana, Hashem answers their tefilos and grants their request. However the tool for tefila is the mouth and when the mouth is contaminated with forbidden speech it simply doesn't function properly. No matter hard one davens, broken mouths cannot accomplish the task.
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The impurities always rise to the top, when the water starts boiling.
So it is no surprise, that things tend to look dark;
but in reality, it is just a purifying process, that will end in a totally good world!

America has experienced a bloodless coup; perpetrated by socialists, and funded by the enemies of America.

The biggest mosque in Europe, is going to be opened in Creteil, a suburb of Paris.

A person can achieve this degree of intense unity with G-d, only through Torah study. Specifically, it is the study of the inner dimension of the Torah - Kabbalah and Chasidut - that enables a person to reach this high level of consciousness.

This aspect of the Torah is alluded to by the two engraved tablets. When words are written on something - say, parchment - the ink and parchment are still two separate entities; the ink can be scraped off.

Engraving, on the other hand, is a much more intrinsic unity; the word and the medium are one and the same.