Richard John Neuhaus Quotes
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I never use that word, retire.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'
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He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
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The older I get, the better I was.
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It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us.
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose.
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The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist.
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Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
