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For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
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If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.
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Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor;…
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Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been…
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If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand,…
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Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate…
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You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go…
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Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from…
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Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the…
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Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern…
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In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the…
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You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.
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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,…
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are…
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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
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A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.
— H. L. Mencken
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The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
— John Burroughs
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And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now…
— John F. Kennedy
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Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and…
— Joel Beeke
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And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't…
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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.…
— Sarah Vowell
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I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you…
— Willem Dafoe
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If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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