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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Joseph Ratzinger

War, Death, May

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
Terry Eagleton

Sick, Joke, Expense

Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.
Terry Eagleton

Great, Thought, Young

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
Ida B. Wells

Off, Body, Century

I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
Ed Koch

Good, Gay, Single

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
Joseph Barbera

Great, Glories, Mgm

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
Herbert Read

Often, Morality, Exists

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.
Jim Lehrer

Death, Iraq, Marines

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
George Henry Lewes

Men, Live, Nothing

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
Ludwig von Mises

Peace, State, Influence

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
John Shelby Spong

Christian, Immaturity, Church

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Life, Good, Job

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
Robert Morgan

Best, Poetry, American

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael

God, Sense, Word

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael

Between, Lies, Difference

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
Georg Brandes

Summer, Woods, Delights

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
Evelyn Waugh

Find, Except, England

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
Andre Malraux

Evening, May, Painting

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.
Conrad Black

Life, Freedom, Long

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
Stephen Gardiner

Nature, Put, Trees

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.
Kevin Rudd

Great, History, Art

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.
Kevin Rudd

Home, Past, May

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
Wendell Willkie

Busy, Thinking, Others

The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
Gary Bauer

Change, Try, Interested

'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
Gary Bauer

Judge, Important, Law

Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
Gary Bauer

Faith, Freedom, Strong

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
John O. Brennan

War, Population, Civilian

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus

Rich, Poor, Unfair

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Danny Glover

Men, Country, Find

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
T. D. Jakes

Pain, Present, Touched

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