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GENE MUNSTER In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My hom...
GENE LUEN YANG Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined...
VINCENT NICHOLS Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope ...
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ARUNDHATI ROY It's not a deception, ... What John Paul II said was that these tribunals must work according to tru...
FRANCIS ARINZE As Easter approaches and in the context of the testament of John Paul II, I remind you of his words,...
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MUHAMMAD ALI We mourn with the world the passing of Pope John Paul II. His death brings to all a deep sense of gr...
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere dis...
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ALAN BYRD President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts...
LINCOLN CHAFEE Humanity will preserve an emotional memory of the tireless work of His Holiness John Paul II in favo...
FIDEL CASTRO I'm confident that John Paul II will be remembered as one of the most remarkable people to have grac...
BOB BEAUPREZ The problems are many. But the I-AA, Division II and Division III schools do it.
IVAN MAISEL In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which...
ALBERTO MORAVIA Wars are made by those who are old enough to know better, and fought by those who are not.
RAIN BOJANGLES My wife expects me to be on a plane to Rome for the CBS screening of the CBS TV movie about Pope Joh...
ARN TELLEM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Most people understand that the important things in life are not things at all - they are the relati...
JOHN PAUL WARREN Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those wh...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we've banished othe...
DALAI LAMA XIV, DESMOND TUTU, DOUGLAS ABRAMS Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: l...
DALLIN H. OAKES Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI There is no peace to be taken/ With poets who are young,/ For they worry about the wars to be fought...
JOYCE KILMER That's a first. The Guard can't claim that (level of combat) for World War II or World War I ? the o...
LES MELNYK Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conques...
STEVEN PINKER When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... Wars are not fought on the training ground, nor can they be covered from a TV studio. They are not r...
BOB SCHIEFFER Character is not something one wears on their sleeve, shoulder or badge on their chest. It resides i...
JOHN PAUL WARREN Men of God are not just born, they are formed
JOHN PAUL WARREN The inalienable dignity of every human being and the rights which flow from that dignity - in the fi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fo...
JOYCE KILMER Last wars people fought against military and political dictatorships; next wars center on corporate ...
PETER SAYSOMPHANE We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons, most of...
ANDREW MACK For courage mounteth with occasion. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Blaming the World Bank for poverty is a bit like blaming the Red Cross for starting World Wars I and...
MICHAEL MOORE If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong.
JOHN PAUL WARREN I have no complaints. Charlton fought a lot and they fought for that luck, which they got. They were...
JOSE MOURINHO It's more like a love-hate relationship. The Russian thing is more about our ancestors. Both of my g...
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MARK GREEN I pray every day so that John Paul II is made saint. He is a man that changed Poland, changed me, ch...
KATARZYNA MALEC I talk to all the creative directors today, and they take me aside, and they say, 'You know, it ...
GEORGE LOIS You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not b...
ISAAC BARROW Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.
JOHN PAUL WARREN John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bom...
ISAAC ASIMOV Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men
JOHN PAUL WARREN There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomor...
HENRIQUE CAPRILES RADONSKI I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship
JOHN PAUL WARREN Dear brothers and sisters after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simpl...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Generally speaking, our thoughts are that more money is not the answer to our education problems.
DENVER MERRILL Not true, ... They were best friends. They were together all the time, all four of them. John and Pa...
CYNTHIA LENNON Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and bei...
IRVIN MAYFIELD I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that someti...
EDI RAMA Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in erro...
ARISTOTLE Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and frui...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of ...
GEORGE S. PATTON Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of ...
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of ...
GEORGE S. PATTON JR. I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.
JOHN PAUL WARREN plaintiff must...ultimately prove... discrimination.
CLARENCE THOMAS John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II...
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DANIEL PIPES Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one...
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LORI WALKER Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
OWEN ARTHUR Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
KARL KRAUS Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
KARL KRAUS Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots
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GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos...
JOE BACA God love's in the dark.
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EVEL KNIEVEL Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are gener...
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POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
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POPE JOHN PAUL II Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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...
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POPE JOHN PAUL II The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
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POPE JOHN PAUL II Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the worl...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I am expressing a very, very heartfelt thank you for being here, and I am very grateful you are host...
POPE JOHN PAUL II You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are servi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
POPE JOHN PAUL II A happy new year to all of you, men and women of every part of the world.
POPE JOHN PAUL II From the cave of Bethlehem there rises today an urgent appeal to the world not to yield to mistrust,...
POPE JOHN PAUL II In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred an...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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POPE JOHN PAUL II Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a communi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we...
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JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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JOHN PAUL II Know what you are talking about.
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JOHN PAUL II Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
JOHN PAUL II Merry Christmas!
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JOHN PAUL II I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged...
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JOHN PAUL II We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to prot...
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POPE THEODOROS II Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message b...
POPE THEODOROS II To begin with, homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia; one is sexual orientation and the ot...
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POPE PAUL VI Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change th...
POPE PAUL VI Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
POPE PAUL VI You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favo...
POPE PAUL VI The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
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POPE PAUL VI Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but...
POPE PAUL VI We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive ...
POPE PAUL VI Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not ...
POPE PAUL VI Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
POPE PAUL VI We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable...
POPE PAUL VI Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
POPE PAUL VI I met a hundred men going to Delhi, and every one is my brother.
POPE PAUL VI A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
POPE PAUL VI The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me...
POPE PAUL VI In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
POPE PAUL VI Never give advice in a crowd.
POPE PAUL VI No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
POPE PAUL VI Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
POPE PAUL VI Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life...
POPE PAUL VI Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
POPE PAUL VI All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensi...
POPE PAUL VI Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
POPE PAUL VI Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
POPE PAUL VI Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
POPE PAUL VI Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn...
POPE PAUL VI Any port in a storm.
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POPE PAUL VI everyone else was a surprise, at least as measured by public speculation prior to the conclave.
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POPE PAUL VI In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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POPE PAUL VI Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
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POPE JOHN XXIII If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
POPE JOHN I My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
POPE JOHN XXIII It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is fo...
POPE JOHN XXIII Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
POPE JOHN XXIII The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light...
POPE JOHN XXIII Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about ...
POPE JOHN XXIII The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
POPE JOHN XXIII Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
POPE JOHN XXIII Christian life means sacrifice.
POPE JOHN XXIII Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
POPE JOHN XXIII Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
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POPE JOHN XXIII The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
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POPE JOHN XXIII The family is the first essential cell of human society.
POPE JOHN XXIII A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
POPE JOHN XXIII It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
POPE JOHN XXIII I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking a...
POPE JOHN XXIII Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
POPE JOHN XXIII It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I mus...
POPE JOHN XXIII Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place...
POPE JOHN XXIII See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
POPE JOHN XXIII Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth ...
POPE JOHN XXIII In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying fermen...
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POPE JOHN XXIII He would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea...but know th...
POPE JOHN XXII If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light
POPE JOHN XXIII I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
POPE JOHN XXIII I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
POPE JOHN XXIII Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways: women, gambling, and farming. My family chose th...
POPE JOHN XXIII We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not enter a strange hous...
POPE JOHN XXIII I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
POPE JOHN XXIII See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little
POPE JOHN XXII You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.
POPE JOHN XXIII You get to pay for it, ... You guys are going to pay. Nobody wants to turn down the fire department.
POPE JOHN XXIII This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
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ELIZABETH II When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they ...
ABDALLAH II Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in wh...
ABDALLAH II The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
ABDALLAH II In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its o...
ABDALLAH II Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast...
ABDALLAH II Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is m...
ABDALLAH II He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
CHARLES II Evil be to him who evil thinks.
EDWARD II For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.
CHARLES II If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument ca...
AGESILAUS II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
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CHARLES II I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.
CHARLES II O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole w...
PHILIP II I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
CATHERINE II They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
ELIZABETH II In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions
CATHERINE II Your wit makes others witty.
CATHERINE II Not a religion for gentlemen.
CHARLES II Never in the way, and never out of the way.
CHARLES II Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Men make love more intens...
CATHERINE II I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
CATHERINE II