"It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed."
-Andrew Greeley
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"Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?“
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"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."
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"Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life."
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"I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion."
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"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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"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."
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"I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience."
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"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
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"If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything."
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"Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required."
-Yiannis Stournaras
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"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
-Ridley Pearson
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"Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked."
-Abdus Salam
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