Thus Time, and all-states-ordering CeremonyHad banished all offense: Time__ golden thighUpholds the flowery body of the earthIn sacred harmony, and every birthOf men and actions makes legitimate,Being used aright. The use of time is Fate.---From __ero and Leander, Sestiad III

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Moses Luzzatto always said to be patient during the hard times, that they would have to endure and make sacrifices while they waited for better times to come. He urged Simone and the other Jewish boys not to provoke the Venetians, saying they should remain separate and focus on their work. He said their traditions were crucial to their identity, just as they were for their fathers before them.

Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the system himself, or procured it to be written in his life time. But there is no publication extant authenticated with his name. All the books called the New Testament were written after his death. He was a Jew by birth and by profession.

I do not go to church. I don__ go to Christian church or Jew church or any other church. I don__ go to church at all. Not ever. A perfect Sunday for me is spent drinking green tea while reading the Sunday New York Times. Yikes! Why don__ I just turn in my Al-Qaeda membership form and call it a day? As if that wasn__ bad enough, not only do I not go to church:I don__ believe in God. How can I say the Pledge of Allegiance if I don__ believe in God? How can I spend our American currency which pledges __n God We Trust?_ How can I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help me God? Answer: I can__. It__ a real problem. Don__ get me wrong _ I__ like to believe in God. I wish I did, especially if He was the kind of God that thought America was #1. But I don__, which to many people is the same as not believing in America. Up until recently, I thought those people were lunatics.