Eugene Kennedy Quotes
Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.
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I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
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It's kind of hard to put your finger on it. There are a lot of things that you could sit here and make excuses about or something.
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I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.
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Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart –The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd – To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
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Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
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My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
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The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.
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It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.
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The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable enough to cause grudging admiration, astonished curiosity or threatening hostility.
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I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.
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Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.
