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One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the were jealous. The seder for Passover (which is a shame-faced simulacrum of a Hellenic question-and-answer session, even including the wine) tells the children that it's one of those things that happens to every Jewish generation. After the or or Holocaust, many rabbis tried to tell the survivors that the immolation had been a punishment for 'exile,' or for insufficient attention to the Covenant. This explanation was something of a flop with those whose parents or children had been the raw material for the 'proof,' so for a time the professional interpreters of god's will went decently quiet. This interval of ambivalence lasted until the war of 1967, when it was announced that the divine purpose could be discerned after all. How wrong, how foolish, to have announced its discovery prematurely! The exile and the Shoah could now both be understood, as part of a heavenly if somewhat roundabout scheme to recover the Western Wall in Jerusalem and other pieces of biblically mandated real estate.I regard it as a matter of self-respect to spit in public on rationalizations of this kind. (They are almost as repellent, in their combination of arrogance, masochism, and affected false modesty, as Edith Stein's 'offer' of her life to expiate the regrettable unbelief in Jesus of her former fellow Jews.) The sage Jews are those who have put religion behind them and become in so many societies the leaven of the secular and the atheist.

Christopher Hitchens

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Tiger Woods

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Guillaume Apollinaire

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

Beverly Sills

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man

Thomas Jefferson

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Bob Dylan

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Stevie Wonder

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

Henry Bonilla

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell