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Pope Benedict XVI

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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
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God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you ...
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our h...
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
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A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the...
BENEDICT XVI
Just as the life of Jesus, in his obedience and dedication to the Father, is a living parable of the...
BENEDICT XVI
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute ...
DIRK BENEDICT
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are ge...
DIRK BENEDICT
Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not e...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it...
DIRK BENEDICT
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone i...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak...
RUTH BENEDICT
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an...
RUTH BENEDICT
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active...
RUTH BENEDICT
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
RUTH BENEDICT
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
RUTH BENEDICT
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ...
RUTH BENEDICT
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. ...
BENEDICT SPINOZA
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on t...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap y...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standa...
RUTH BENEDICT
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was act...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorro...
DIRK BENEDICT
I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
RUTH BENEDICT
I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with inter...
DIRK BENEDICT
Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things...
BENEDICT SPINOZA
If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
Desire is the essence of a man.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody.
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
Merck has been extremely good to me over the years,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
[The researcher was warning that] you can't just give this to anybody, ... You have to identify peop...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
They don't mind killing patients,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
They are trying to tell the leadership (about the risks) before they go out and launch this drug to ...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
I don't know that I owe them an apology,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
Based on the science, there's every reason to believe that a single dose, multiple doses, whatever, ...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
When I first read that, I personally became enraged,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seam...
BENEDICT ARNOLD
Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any f...
BENEDICT ARNOLD
If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain ...
BENEDICT ARNOLD
Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our A...
BENEDICT ARNOLD
I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a d...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended...
DIRK BENEDICT
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH