In Religion
- There are 100 blasts of the Shofar heard in the service of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
- A religious Jew is expected to utter at least 100 blessings daily.
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“The great end of all religion ... is to purify our hearts—and conquer our passions—and in a word, to make us wiser and better men—better neighbours—better citizens—and better servants of GOD.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)