Richard John Neuhaus Quotes
Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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But I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation, and the changes we are making can help improve the lives of the Cuban people.
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Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long
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Individualists would have little use for a device which would make them understand one another, for they would not care whether they understood one another.
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There is a difference between a passion and a fucking meltdown.
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Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
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I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.
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People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
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My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
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The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.
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Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.
