#oda

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others. ↗

— Georg Solti

#against #although #both #both sides #did

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#already #china #could #exclude #islamic

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#get #going #literate #read #teaching

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890? ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#art #compared #dates #fact #feel

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#different #get #going #information #new

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#been #blessed #experiences #extraordinary #i

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ago #always #believed #everyone #gotten

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#bill #bill of rights #first #first amendment #freedom

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#cancer #cured #declared #had #i