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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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Except he be willing, man cannot believe.
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I believe in order to understand
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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
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Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.
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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Love is ever new because it never groweth old.
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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
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The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.
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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.
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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.
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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
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And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?
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That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.
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