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For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
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Characteristic Deplore Exactly Human Invasion Irresistible Modern More Nothing One Surely Technology Time Welcome Whether World
Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.
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Another Archive Personal Satisfaction Success Them Thought Worry Worth
All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
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Act All Been Habit Ingrain Know Me Sort Thanks
There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
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Conviction Envisage Good Hold Independence Many Oneself Question Sacrifice Time
At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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All Dissociate Extreme Matter Most Only Our Star State Survive Temperature
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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Able Entirely Himself Life Man Mankind Neither See Unable Unrelate Unrelated
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up
The soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers – extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.
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Bouquet Climate Cover Extraordinary Fragnanve Huge Luxirance Soft Turn
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
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Ancient Imagine Mineral Mobile More Much Science Supple World
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
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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After Gravity Ideal Master Someday Wave
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
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Already Been Deep Discover Know Nature Our Tendency
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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Analyze Difficult Final Good Happen Itself Question Some Transmute
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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Behind Console Himself Individual Leave May Offspring Pass Through Work
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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Able After Enough Fondness Judge Lime Mathematician Physics Relativity Well
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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After All Each Other Exist Forever One Recreate Suffer Together

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