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" While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. "

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" 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. "

" Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went. "

" Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. "

" Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers. "

" Giving is what makes a nation great. "

" Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past. "

" 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. "

" The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good. "

" Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds. "

" Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. "

" God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot. "

" The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution. "

" The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities. "

" Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations. "

" Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen. "

" Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible. "

" 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. "

" The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors. "

" In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. "

" The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt. "

" Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives. "

" No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work. "

" The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. "

" People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media. "

" Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it. "

" Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy. "

" The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies. "

" 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. "