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It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in ar

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They werent going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. – Andrew Greeley

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The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement… they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. – Andrew Greeley

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Leadership
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Andrew Greeley
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An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody whos kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. – Andrew Greeley

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Experience
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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. – Andrew Greeley

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DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine. – Kenneth Boulding, “Energy and the Environment,” Beasts, Ballads, and Bouldingism

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

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Theres a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat. – Gayle King

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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, 1920

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If youre not using your smile, youre like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. – Les Giblin

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