Theodore Hesburgh Quotes

#1. All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

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#2. The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.

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#3. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.

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#4. A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

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#5. Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.

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#6. There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

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#7. I'll have another beer. I'm not driving.

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#8. It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.

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#9. Voting is a civic sacrament.

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#10. Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

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#11. There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose ... There has been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

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#12. It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

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