Richard Rohr Quotes
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
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The only time I judge an actor on set is if they're not failing; if they get it right all the time, I start to question it. I feel like it's too easy.
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One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.
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There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do the orchestra. And then there are great conductors, who have their own opinion on the music, who are ruling everything - and not listening much to the singers, but the orchestra play amazingly.
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In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
