Alexander Schmemann Quotes
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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One challenge is to agree on minimum criteria of good governance that are not perceived as a threat to cultural traditions and to draw on moral concepts that are indigenous to specific cultural settings. fix cite
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Whether we shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people
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I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.
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Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.
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'We would make our heroes shallow,' he answered, the words very slow and almost sad. 'We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.'
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When you do learn these things, when you understand what inclusion is, then we can accomplish greater things together.
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God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
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We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.
