A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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