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"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."

"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."

"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."

"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"

"The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show."

"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."

"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
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"I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on life."

"The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe."

"In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

"Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done."

"Our children must learnto face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the resultsthe whole democratic systemdepends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves."
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