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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Pope Benedict XVI
    “If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.”
    ― Pope Benedict XVI
    tags: god, hope, love
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    Pope Benedict XVI
    “Truth is not determined by a majority vote.”
    ― Pope Benedict XVI
    tags: cardinal-ratzinger, joseph-ratzinger, pope-benedict-xvi
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    Aristotle
    “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: anger
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    Thomas E. Woods Jr.
    “The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. ”
    ― Thomas E. Woods Jr.
    tags: catholicism, law
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    Epictetus
    “Only the educated are free.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: education
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    Epictetus
    “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
    ― Epictetus
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    Epictetus
    “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
    ― Epictetus
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    Epictetus
    “Do not try to seem wise to others. ”
    ― Epictetus
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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    C.G. Jung
    “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
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    C.G. Jung
    “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: life-experience
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    C.G. Jung
    “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, god, religion
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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    William Blake
    “A truth that's told with bad intent
    Beats all the lies you can invent.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism
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    Norton Juster
    “Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: philosophy
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “People travel to wonder
    at the height of the mountains,
    at the huge waves of the seas,
    at the long course of the rivers,
    at the vast compass of the ocean,
    at the circular motion of the stars,
    and yet they pass by themselves
    without wondering. ”
    ― Saint Augustine
    tags: spiritual
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
    ― St. Augustine
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo
    tags: adventure, love, romance
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.”
    ― St. Augustine
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. ”
    ― St. Augustine
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