There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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The past is not what it was.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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