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Cardinal Newman

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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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CARDINAL NEWMAN Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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CARDINAL J. NEWMAN It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
CARDINAL J. NEWMAN Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We ca...
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you mus...
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in the...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
CARDINAL MERMILLOD War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU By appointing their own bishops hastily and illegally, they [the Patriotic Catholic Association] tri...
CARDINAL ZEN And especially the newer bishops. Everybody knows they were appointed by the Holy Father.
CARDINAL ZEN The final word should not be exclusively on the side of an atheist government.
CARDINAL ZEN My impression is that they've entered into real talks.
CARDINAL ZEN Only the Holy Father can decide which men are suitable. But if the government is worried about an ap...
CARDINAL ZEN But there will be time.
CARDINAL ZEN Winter has passed, and spring has come. The seeds you have sown with tears will bear fruit very soon...
CARDINAL ZEN Yet it is not my blood that has been shed -- it is the bleeding tears from the numerous, nameless, h...
CARDINAL ZEN I agree mainland China's situation is different. The Vatican may make concessions and let China give...
CARDINAL ZEN I can confidently say these are not major problems. They can be overcome.
CARDINAL ZEN I am massively constrained by my position at No 10.
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CARDINAL RICHELIEU Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang hi...
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CARDINAL RICHELIEU Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns
CARDINAL RETZ A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
CARDINAL RETZ It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
CARDINAL RETZ A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
CARDINAL RETZ Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
CARDINAL RETZ Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely hu...
CARDINAL RATZINGER the unity that is required for the church's effective redemptive service in the world.
CARDINAL RATZINGER We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain a...
CARDINAL RATZINGER [t]hose...who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.
CARDINAL RATZINGER a real alternative, a set of meanings and values that can stand at a critical and redemptive distanc...
CARDINAL RATZINGER In this sense, we can't calmly sit down and say, 'Well, there's no promise of large numbers; success...
CARDINAL RATZINGER We have the great joy today of introducing and blessing a new rose which has been developed.
CARDINAL MAHONY The war on terror isn't going to be won through immigration restrictions.
CARDINAL MAHONY Is it not possible that their prayer --- their intercession with God --- might in fact help bring ab...
CARDINAL MAHONY It is unacceptable that immigrant workers labor in unsafe conditions for wages insufficient to suppo...
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CARDINAL MAHONY Unless you are a Native American, everyone in here is the son or daughter of immigrants.
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CARDINAL MAHONY It's a very difficult and delicate theme that requires prudence.
CARDINAL LOZANO We are dealing with human beings, and human beings always need something more than technically prope...
CARDINAL LOZANO For example, there are many universities and many countries where you cannot become an obstetrician ...
CARDINAL LOZANO We must provide guidance on the various problems that face the world of health care today, from spec...
CARDINAL LOZANO Because they are having full power in many places, and especially at the national level, they are ab...
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CARDINAL CHEONG No man is to lower himself by showing tolerance towards any sort of heretic, least of all a Calvinis...
CARDINAL CARAFFA But it kept getting really, really sore every single day.
BRIAN CARDINAL I was trying to get it better, trying to get it stronger. You ask anybody in the league that knows m...
BRIAN CARDINAL One (official) had one call, the other had another call. Who knows?
BRIAN CARDINAL Even with advance knowledge and awareness, and active participation in the process, there is no deny...
CARDINAL MAIDA We're not putting that before the Lord. We'll pray that everybody stays healthy, that we have a good...
CARDINAL MAIDA Doing what we please is not freedom is not liberty; rather it is the abuse of true liberty and freed...
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CARDINAL DZIWISZ It's as if the world stopped for that moment.
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ERIC CARDINAL Obviously, if it becomes 17-6, it's a whole different ball game; there's no doubt about it.
ERIC CARDINAL There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper wh...
ROGER CARDINAL This train was on the track before the Board of Supervisors even voted on it in June.
LAURA CARDINAL They (the Board of Supervisors) ignored or glossed over that distinction.
LAURA CARDINAL A very, very small part of the area to be incorporated could be called a community. It's rural.
LAURA CARDINAL Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
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CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER There are no office hours for leaders.
CARDINAL J. GIBBONS Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in the...
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to con...
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
CARDINAL DE RETS Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'
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FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the o...
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
CARDINAL DE RETZ A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
CARDINAL DE RETZ If he admitted this, it confirms the atmosphere of hatred that has stricken a priest who gave Christ...
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
CARDINAL DE RETZ A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
CARDINAL DE RETZ It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
CARDINAL DE RETZ A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
CARDINAL DE RETZ Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns
CARDINAL DE RETZ This is a very damaging confusion.
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD Culture plays a fundamental role for relations between Christians and Muslims.
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD There are no office hours for leaders
CARDINAL JAMES GIBBONS I believe we do a disservice to God and probably to the pro-life cause if God is never mentioned in ...
GEORGE CARDINAL PELL You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Living the good life as created beings depends on living within the limits and according to the trut...
GEORGE CARDINAL PELL I like Public Enemy a great deal.
RANDY NEWMAN I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
RANDY NEWMAN I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn'...
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RANDY NEWMAN Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
RANDY NEWMAN What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 year...
RANDY NEWMAN But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand wha...
RANDY NEWMAN I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. A...
RANDY NEWMAN I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usua...
RANDY NEWMAN I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yours...
RANDY NEWMAN It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
RANDY NEWMAN I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my song...
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RANDY NEWMAN Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that...
RANDY NEWMAN I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
RANDY NEWMAN I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
RANDY NEWMAN I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
RANDY NEWMAN Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
RANDY NEWMAN If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you...
RANDY NEWMAN I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
RANDY NEWMAN It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav...
RANDY NEWMAN Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an in...
RANDY NEWMAN I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I l...
RANDY NEWMAN My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics abou...
RANDY NEWMAN Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
RANDY NEWMAN I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
BARNETT NEWMAN I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own total...
BARNETT NEWMAN Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'deat...
BARNETT NEWMAN We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to i...
CAMPBELL NEWMAN What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5...
CAMPBELL NEWMAN The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful touri...
CAMPBELL NEWMAN I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.
CAMPBELL NEWMAN The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
CAMPBELL NEWMAN It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regula...
CAMPBELL NEWMAN Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each...
ARNOLD NEWMAN There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put al...
ARNOLD NEWMAN The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he wor...
ARNOLD NEWMAN You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ...
PAUL NEWMAN Whatever you say to yourself about it being just another movie, and you're going to do the job y...
THOMAS NEWMAN Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
PAUL NEWMAN We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with ...
PAUL NEWMAN A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ...
NANETTE NEWMAN A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
PAUL NEWMAN I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.
ANDREA NEWMAN A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
ERNEST NEWMAN Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
PAUL NEWMAN Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experienc...
PAUL NEWMAN Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, ima...
PAUL NEWMAN The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then co...
JAMES NEWMAN You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances...
JAMES NEWMAN Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
PAUL NEWMAN If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, i...
PAUL NEWMAN You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstance...
JAMES NEWMAN We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
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PAUL NEWMAN Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create o...
ARNOLD NEWMAN I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have ...
PAUL NEWMAN If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the suck...
PAUL NEWMAN I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
PAUL NEWMAN The airlines are driving the bill. Everyone understands the urgency.
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ANDREA NEWMAN We are truly surprised and disappointed by the DOT's actions. The decision is inconsistent with all ...
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ANDREA NEWMAN She started laughing at me. She said lobbyists have whole careers and never pass anything and, do yo...
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ANDREA NEWMAN They do not address any problems with competition. They're basically requiring an unspecified demons...
ANDREA NEWMAN We believe this is important to the future of Northwest.
ANDREA NEWMAN I'm not looking for a special break. I'm looking for the ability to live up to my obligations.
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ANDY NEWMAN The tourism infrastructure is fully restored; all attractions are up and running.
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ANDY NEWMAN Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's go...
ANDY NEWMAN The general rule is to get as far inland as possible. Find the most secure and safest structure avai...
ANDY NEWMAN Hurricane forecasting has gotten much better over the years but it is still not an exact science.
ANDY NEWMAN I know it's funny. The study of rocks.
ANDY NEWMAN Laid-back atmosphere seems to be tops. It's very much a live-and-let-be environment.
ANDY NEWMAN They both hit the water at the same time, dove and swam around the boat a couple laps. They set off ...
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ANDY NEWMAN This makes it easier for management to respond more nimbly. It also makes it less likely for any spi...
ARTHUR NEWMAN I don't think they really need Windows XP distribution, ... They already have deals with the four la...
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ARTHUR NEWMAN I think the old rules still apply. The company's value is related to its cash flow.
ARTHUR NEWMAN a little bit like the election.
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