American - Philosopher | September 9, 1933 - February 17, 2017
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
Michael Novak
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Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
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To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
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The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.
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Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
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Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
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Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.
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Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
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Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
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The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
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In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.
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Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
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