Richard John Neuhaus Quotes
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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I look formidable.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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So much time and so little to say..
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When we hear the crane’s call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.
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Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
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The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.
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Can't write worrying what the Internet's going to think.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Thank God for both our grandmothers, the Hollands' grandmother was very seminal, and mine was the head of the choir at my church, ... I had to be at church on Thursday, Saturday and Sundays rehearsing. I couldn't do anything else until I got that business taken care of.
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Not true at all. Vaseline is manufactured right here in the United States.
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Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
