Blase J. Cupich Quotes
Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
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This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native should be prosecuted by a federal court. Tribal law can arrest and hold someone for a year, but tribal law cannot prosecute non-natives. So since the federal courts are so overloaded, some of the cases get tossed out.
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Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.
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I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.
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Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.
