What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
SIMONE WEILWhat a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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