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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

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CARDINAL DE RETZ
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This is a very damaging confusion.
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Culture plays a fundamental role for relations between Christians and Muslims.
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She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
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Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
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JOSEPH BRODSKY
People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
NAFISA JOSEPH
The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it ...
NAFISA JOSEPH
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my g...
NAFISA JOSEPH
I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
NAFISA JOSEPH
I have always loved animals since I was very young.
NAFISA JOSEPH
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eye...
NAFISA JOSEPH
Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
NAFISA JOSEPH
Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and y...
NAFISA JOSEPH
Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mis...
NAFISA JOSEPH
I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
NAFISA JOSEPH
Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
NAFISA JOSEPH
I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
NAFISA JOSEPH
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t...
JOSEPH ADDISON
There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.&#...
TYLER JOSEPH
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed...
JOSEPH LANCASTER
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo...
JOSEPH CONRAD
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i...
JOSEPH HELLER
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned him...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique pote...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Love is a friendship set to music.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX
I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least...
JOSEPH LANCASTER
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL
I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls i...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON
'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON
My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Way...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL