Richard Rohr Quotes
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
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I never have an opinion about clothes and know nothing about fashion.
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I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him - he wore these tan Nikes.
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.
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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
