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The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.


Eugene Kennedy

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EUGENE DEBS Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
EUGENE DEBS I would no more teach children military training than I would teach them arson, robbery, or assassin...
EUGENE DEBS Your honor, I ask no mercy, I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail. ...
EUGENE DEBS Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room ...
EUGENE CERNAN (Howard) had been throwing me curve balls because I hung with him earlier in the game. He had to com...
EUGENE EVANS I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel...
EUGENE JARVIS We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breath...
EUGENE CERNAN How do you get there from here? They haven't persuaded me that this is valid, ... You have to have a...
EUGENE FIDELL There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
EUGENE CHADBOURNE It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.
EUGENE WIGNER It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical probl...
EUGENE WIGNER The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
EUGENE WIGNER Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
EUGENE CERNAN Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE MCCARTHY The rebound indicates the market is not overbought. But the basic market leadership is still in tact...
EUGENE PERONI I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
EUGENE ORMANDY There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years ...
EUGENE LEVY When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to t...
EUGENE O'NEILL at least provides some judicial review.
EUGENE FIDELL Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
EUGENE O'NEILL The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do t...
EUGENE JARECKI Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a co...
EUGENE IONESCO It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they w...
EUGENE JARECKI I'm being assessed for it. I get nothing, ... I was told by the time I got my tax bill I would get w...
EUGENE FIELD She is continuing a tradition
EUGENE FIELD All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You ...
EUGENE FIELD I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, And yet I cannot say I'm sad That time hath chang...
EUGENE FIELD The gingham dog and the calico cat, Side by side on the table sat
EUGENE FIELD Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe - / Sailed on a river of crystal lig...
EUGENE FIELD But I, when I undress me Each night upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me, With apple pie and ...
EUGENE FIELD Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendul...
EUGENE FIELD He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time
EUGENE FIELD Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
EUGENE FIELD I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing...
EUGENE ORMANDY Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the...
EUGENE DEBS