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1. "We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, "I want it all and I want it now." A whole culture is being infantilised." ~ Jonathan Sacks
2. "Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver." ~ Jonathan Sacks
3. "The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too." ~ Jonathan Sacks
4. "Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy." ~ Jonathan Sacks
5. "Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life." ~ Jonathan Sacks
6. "True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others." ~ Jonathan Sacks
7. "No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work." ~ Jonathan Sacks
8. "Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals." ~ Jonathan Sacks
9. "If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves." ~ Jonathan Sacks
10. "The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation." ~ Jonathan Sacks
11. "Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs." ~ Jonathan Sacks
12. "The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game." ~ Jonathan Sacks
13. "In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride." ~ Jonathan Sacks
14. "Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve." ~ Jonathan Sacks
15. "When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall." ~ Jonathan Sacks
16. "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." ~ Jonathan Sacks
17. "As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders." ~ Jonathan Sacks
18. "Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?" ~ Jonathan Sacks
19. "Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression." ~ Jonathan Sacks
20. "A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity." ~ Jonathan Sacks
21. "Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face." ~ Jonathan Sacks
22. "There are indeed moral universals — the Hebrew Bible calls them ‘the covenant with Noah' and they form the basis of modern codes of human rights. But they exist to create space for cultural and religious difference…" ~ Jonathan Sacks
23. "The idols of today are unmistakable -self-esteem without achievement,sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility,pleasure without struggle andexperience without commitment." ~ Jonathan Sacks
24. "Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories." ~ Jonathan Sacks
25. "Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind." ~ Jonathan Sacks
26. "Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin" ~ Jonathan Sacks
27. "The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his." ~ Jonathan Sacks
28. "We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible's single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent." ~ Jonathan Sacks
29. "We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value." ~ Jonathan Sacks
30. "To whom is an international corporation answerable? Often they do not employ workers. They outsource manufacturing to places far away. If wages rise in one place, they can, almost instantly, transfer production to somewhere else. If a tax regime in one country becomes burdensome, they can relocate to another. To whom, then, are they accountable? By whom are they controllable? For whom are they responsible? To which group of people other than shareholders do they owe loyalty? The extreme mobility, not only of capital but also of manufacturing and servicing, is in danger of creating institutions that have power without responsibility, as well as a social class, the global elite, that has no organic connection with any group except itself." ~ Jonathan Sacks

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This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key."
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