Most Notable Quotations of 2013 So Far?

[Dan Goncharoff]

My personal favorite:

“Well, as far as I’m concerned, Canada’s not really foreign soil."

Said by Cruz fan.

DanG


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake <
b.taylorblake at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
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> >>"Se una persona è gay e cerca il Signore e ha buona volontà, ma chi
> >>sono io per giudicarla?" ("If someone is gay and is searching for the
> >>Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him?") -- Pope Francis,
> >>July 28, 2013
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> > Others have suggested this quotation to me as a candidate for one of the
> most notable quotations of the year.  I would consider it as such if I
> believed it signaled some major change in the Church's attitudes toward
> homosexuality, but I have not regarded it as a serious candidate because I
> don't expect that it will signal any major change by the Church.
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> FWIW, I think Ben's suggestion of including Pope Francis's personal
> observation is a good one, Fred, though I defer to you since you know
> the kind of thing you're after.
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> Still, earlier you had written, "[b]y 'notable' I mean 'important” or
> 'famous' or 'particularly revealing of the spirit of our times' rather
> than necessarily being eloquent or admirable."  Based on this and a
> general, slowly evolving attitude regarding homosexuality, at least in
> U.S. culture, I think that the comment by the Pope is significant,
> even if he were speaking for himself and not the church.  (It also may
> signal that we have a Pope who's willing to go rogue sometimes, which
> I think is a little different.)
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> Me, I think it's worth holding onto, at least for a while.
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> -- Bonnie
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