Alan Wolfe Quotes
In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture -and American culture has triumphed.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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I love girl power.
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry!
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If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.
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I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.
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A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.
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I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.
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Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies.
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I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.
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One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture -and American culture has triumphed.
