I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
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POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate... POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth... POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro... POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi... POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d... POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the... POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ... POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e... POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t... POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow. POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b... POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re... POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther... POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you... POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. POPE JOHN PAUL II Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace i... WENDY MASS All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
impossible. PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And... PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being. PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the ... PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ... PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head. MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becom... PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be c... PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time... PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired. PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time. PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of. PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ... PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason. PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but. PAUL DICKSON The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has ... JOHN C. DANFORTH The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a le... DENNIS PRAGER Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ough... JAMES MADISON When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The... KILROY J. OLDSTER We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w... TOM ALTHOUSE Peace within us starts when we learn to forgive and let go MIMI NOVIC Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is con... FRANKLIN GILLETTE The scars of others should teach us caution. ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men. ST. JEROME Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not... SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth... SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen... SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble... SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir... SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi... SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde... SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco... SAINT PATRICK
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MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a... MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ... MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera... MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow... MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe... MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn... MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes... MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu... MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning. MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.' MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no... MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met. MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w... MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n... MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and... MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p... MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew... MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha... MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ... MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air... MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye... MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ... MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O... MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that... MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven. MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan... MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J... MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we... MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci... MARY KARR