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Polish-American author and playwright (d. 1957), Birth: 1-11-1880 Sholem Asch Quotes
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Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.
Sholem Asch

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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
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Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.
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Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.
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Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.
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If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.
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Quote Topics by Sholem Asch: Creativity Jesus Book Men Hammers Library Moving Heaven Tools Vision Glands Sea Country Creative Writing Light Humankind Writing Deeds God Love Resilience Dawn Moral Night Security Nations Son Details Children Evil Forgiveness
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The best security for old age: respect your children.
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Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.
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The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.
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Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.
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Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
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I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.
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Personality is the gland of creativity.
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Through our soul is our contact with heaven.
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Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?
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God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.
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