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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 Indeed 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.

It Is Easier To Exemplify Values Than Teach Them.

Once He Created The Big Bang... He Could Have Envisioned It Going In Billions Of Directions As It Evolved, Including Billions Of Life-forms And Billions Of Kinds Of Intelligent Beings. As A Theologian, I Would Say That The Proposed Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (seti) Is Also A Search Of Knowing And Understanding God Through His Works - Especially Those Works That Most Reflect Him. Finding Others Than Ourselves Would Mean Knowing Him Better.

The Most Important Thing A Father Can Do For His Children Is To Love Their Mother.

The Melting Pot Failed To Function In One Crucial Area. Religions And Nationalities, However Different, Generally Learned To Live Together, Even To Grow Together, In America. But Color Was Something Else. Reds Were Murdered Like Wild Animals. Yellows Were Characterized As A Peril And Incarcerated En Masse During World War Ii For No Really Good Reason By Our Most Liberal President. Browns Have Been Abused As The New Slave Labor On Farms. The Blacks, Who Did Not Come Here Willingly, Are Now, More Than A Century After Emancipation By Lincoln, Still Suffering A Host Of Slave Like Inequalities.