Richard John Neuhaus Quotes
Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.
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Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.
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Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.
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If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
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I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.
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Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.
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All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.
