Charles J. Chaput Quotes
We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Genius is never understood in its own time.
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Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
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For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it is the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness of deserting his post.
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With almost no time to decide, they your loved ones gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.
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We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.
