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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Simone Weil

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
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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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman

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