Richard John Neuhaus Quotes
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
Quotes to Explore
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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Love is the one wild card.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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革命不是請客吃飯，不是做文章，不是繪畫繡花，不能那樣雅致，那樣從容不迫，文質彬彬，那樣溫良恭儉讓。革命是暴動，是一個階級推翻一個階級的暴烈的行動。
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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
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On parle peu quand la vanité ne fait pas parler.
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I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.
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We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.
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A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
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Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
