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We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
Andrew Greeley
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Andrew Greeley
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: February 5
Died: 2013
Died: May 29
Catholic Priest
Journalist
Novelist
Priest
Sociologist
University Teacher
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Oak Park
Illinois
Andrew M. Greeley
Andrew Moran Greeley
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The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.
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Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three small wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.
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When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know And, as in Eden Adam walked with God, When in that quiet aisle my feet have trod I have found peace among the silver trees, Known comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze Heard music in its whisper, and have known Most certainly that I was not alone!
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