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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The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
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I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.
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Another important aspect is that the masters taught us to move from a deeper source,not just from muscles and joints.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
