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"Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."
"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."
"No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness."
"When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks."
"You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve."
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"You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture."
"It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed."
"If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic."
"I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy."
"In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites."
"Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits."
"Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort."
"An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's 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."
"I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad."
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