Quotes About Bava

#1. If one find lost property in a locality where the majority are Israelites, he is bound to proclaim it; but he is not bound to do so if the majority be Gentiles.' -- Bava Metzia , fol 24, col. 1"

-- Hebraic Literature, page 31

Maurice H. Harris

#2. If the ox of an Israelite bruise the ox of a Gentile, the Israelite is exempt from paying damages; but should the ox of a Gentile bruise the ox of an Israelite, the Gentile is bound to recompense him in full.' -- Bava Kama, fol. 38, Col. 2"

-- Hebraic Literature, page 31

Maurice H. Harris

#3. Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile.

Steven E. Landsburg

#4. Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

E.B. White

#5. He took from his coat pocket a handful of wadded-up cash, as if children had paid him directly with their sweaty clutches of dollar bills.

Timothy Schaffert

#6. Lives that have had their turn now take their turn observing other lives.

Jonathan Stone

#7. They had taken see-no-evil and had made it their own by adopting a state sanctioned Orwellian see-no-evil policy

Jonathan Dunne

#8. A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

Mary Pope Osborne

#9. For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

Jay S. Walker

#10. Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.

Fabiola Gianotti

#11. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Phil Jackson

#12. I don't prefer much of film over stage ... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

Marisa Tomei