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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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