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When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.
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With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
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When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
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It is people who are important, not the masses.
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