Alan Wolfe famous quotes
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To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.
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We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.
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Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.
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In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.
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We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.
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Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.
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If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world.
-- Alan Wolfe
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Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.
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my opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing out high-powered phrases to 'hype' the works of Da Free John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion: Da Free John's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
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The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.
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I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.
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