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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place

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