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We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.
I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience.
The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.
So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.
It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.
Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.
Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.
Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.
Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.
Read two newspapers a day. And not just online. Hold them in your hands. Get ink on your fingers.
A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.
All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.
Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.
A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.
The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones.
The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.
Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.
It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.
The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.
I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.