Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.


Wendell Phillips

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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
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Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n...
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
SAINT IGNATIUS
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
SAINT IGNATIUS
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what m...
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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
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If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power host...
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To me, that's not enough punishment. But what I want most from him is an apology.
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For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take aw...
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Free men are the strongest men.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to ...
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I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of C...
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside wo...
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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to ext...
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into ...
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana....
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Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, a...
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It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
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Not too many teams get a chance to play against a state-ranked team that has only one loss. We look ...
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What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. ...
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With Oracle shares currently trading at 34 times our revised [calendar year 2001] EPS estimate of 43...
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I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
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We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
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When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
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Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
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No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
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...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
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We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
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Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
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Sabbaths, 1982—IV  
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)


Thrush song,...
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