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Ross Douthat

"During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”"

Source : "A Time for Contrition". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 2010.

Ross Douthat

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“Anything is possible in this universe. It could be that you turn the chair around it's just a glove handcuffed to a bomb, like in Inspector Gadget.”
“Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.”
“I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.”
“Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'”

Source : Donald E. Wildmon, Randall Nulton (1989). “Don Wildmon: the man the networks love to hate”, Bristol House Ltd
“I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.”

Source : "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.
“I'm optimistic about Turkey's prospects for reaching the E.U.'s standards of development, governance, and democracy, whether inside or outside the E.U. Provided you have a prosperous, rational society in Turkey that can interact with Europe and the West, I don't really care what kind of institutional arrangement you have. The point to make about Turkey and Europe is that it's a very long, drawn-out process. What's important is that the process not be stopped, that Turkey and Europe evolve in the right direction, on a path of convergence. Convergence is the name of the game.”
“Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.”
“I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.”

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