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By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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All Behind Clearly Elsewhere Forward Making March Movement Prow Reveal Spray Surely Thrown Wake
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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Defender Die Ideal Many Obscurity Prevail
But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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Battle Circumstance Day Deed External Great Power Want
We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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Discover God History Man Second Shall Time
I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
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Ceiling Country Expres Finally Like Man Partition Penetrate Through
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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Ascending Biology Chemistry Geology Man Physics Understand
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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Back Characteristic Childhood Familiar Far Go However Into More Nothing Seems
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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Been Gave Large Most One Other Part Satisfy Self Thing
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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Can Greater Handle Importendence What World
For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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Action Conception Feast Immaculate Passive
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
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Divine Each Other Eliminate Inward Mileu Them Ultimate Universe
Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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Consequently Contact Each Encroachment Guard Intelligent Need Other
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
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All Attitude Cause Christian Forget Hope Human Itself Love Making Neither Organise Society
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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After Gravity Ideal Master Someday Wave
One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
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Close Coming Difficulty Eyes Less More Must One Recognize Short Upset
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up

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