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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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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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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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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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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As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
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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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I also heard he got busted for smoking weed and he’s really sorry about it and people make mistakes and he’s never gonna do it again.
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We want Iowa to remain red. We have worked so hard to get here. We will not be a purple state: we will be a red state.
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I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.
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My hope is that, after finishing The Cougar Club, readers feel good about themselves, no matter their age, and realize that life’s all about finding your passion, whether it be romantically or professionally. You’re never too old to follow your heart or your dreams.
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Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
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I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane
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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
