It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
BILL VAUGHANInsofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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