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Saints are usually killed by their own people.

Eric Sevareid
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Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

Andrew V. Mason
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I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. -Dylan Thomas
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We've talked about moving those Saints games to later in the day, but that's not decided yet.

Bernard Boudreaux
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There is an air of religious pilgrimage to seeing a star's home. It is a bit like journeying to a religious shrine, or going to a remote town where a saint's liver is displayed in a bottle.

Martin Kaplan
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Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal. -Stanley Baldwin
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I won't be surprised if the New York fans treat the Saints the same way we were treated in Kansas City — before the game.

Shaun Williams
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[When Jim Nicholson was ambassador to the Holy See last year, he had a memorable conversation with a Polish archbishop, introduced to him as] Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. ... So what do you do?

Jim Nicholson
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And the long-range toughness (for the Saints) is they know the next year is going to be different... the family insecurity... this one is going to be unbelievable in comparison. -Mike White
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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

Charles Buck
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I never intended to stay in New Orleans, ... [But] along the way, New Orleans was really good to me. We were the only pro team in town. We weren't too good, but the fans were passionate about the Saints and extremely good to me and my family.

Archie Manning
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It's so tempting and so easy that it can be a lot to ask ordinary human beings who aren't saints not to do it. -Jonathan Moreno
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Our position is we want to cooperate with the Saints and the state in an effort to keep the Saints in the state, both now and in the future. Particularly in view of this tragedy, we're going to do everything we can to cooperate. We have had no disagreement about how that should be, except logistics.

Bernard Boudreaux
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These are neither heroes nor martyrs nor saints.

Cheryl Keen
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The Saints won today. If there is a discrepancy in the score, I guess we'll have to go to the film. -Mike Uremovich
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As we move forward together, the Saints look forward to serving as a leader in the rebuilding and revitalization of our great community.

Tom Benson
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These people are behind this football team. Other than Mardi Gras, it's the Saints , so I was excited about coming here.

Maurice Carthon
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That's why they're the Saints. That isn't true. If anyone in that organization has any questions about whether I gave everything I had while I was there, then they can go to hell. -Lecharles Bentley
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I know it's got to be tough dealing with what the Saints are going through. I feel for them. For them to come out and play a football game and get a win, that shows a lot.

Tory James
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Those two have been bad picks. The Saints' early-round picks just haven't lived up to expectations under this staff.

Mike Detillier
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LSU did everything it possibly could to accommodate the state of Louisiana, the Saints and the NFL. -Bernard Boudreaux
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[The set has a strong Crescent City tilt, with Harry Connick Jr.'s] City Beneath the Sea ... When the Saints Go Marching In.

Kirk Whalum
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I think it's important for the saints to play. To let the city of New Orleans know, hey, this is the first step in moving forward.

James Thomas
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We were playing to win. We weren't coming in here feeling sorry for the New Orleans Saints. We just didn't get it done. -Ricky Proehl
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There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

Saki
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Another very significant program that was enabled by the school building changes was the fifth grade band program. All students at Norrie and at All Saints Academy take band, they have to try an instrument.

James Rayner
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We want to ensure that the entire Saints community sees how committed that we are to this state and how much we want to find a long-term resolution to a very difficult and complex matter. -Arnold Fielkow
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

Frederick Buechner
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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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