Quote by Andrew Greeley
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately l

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear? – 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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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? – Andrew Greeley

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Patience
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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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Genius aint anything more than elegant common sense. – Josh Billings

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Intelligence

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. – Sigmund Freud

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Intelligence

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. – Jose Bergamin

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Intelligence

There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid. – John Fowles

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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. – Goethe

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, thats another matter. – Peter Drucker

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There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. – Vincent van Gogh

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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. – Abraham Lincoln

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