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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 John Paul II
    “True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.”
    ― Pope John Paul II
    tags: freedom, morality, peace
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book
    tags: education, sound-judgement, truth
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    Fulton J. Sheen
    “You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
    ― Fulton J. Sheen
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    “INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions.”
    ― Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
    tags: concentration, distraction, p163, wisdom
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    Pope John Paul II
    “Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
    ― Pope John Paul II
    tags: courage, gospel, inspirational
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    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.”
    ― Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
    tags: catholic, catholicism, heart, p40, wisdom
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    Fulton J. Sheen
    “The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.”
    ― Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
    tags: freedom, p211, wisdom
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    Fulton J. Sheen
    “The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.”
    ― Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
    tags: catholic, catholicism, christianity, faith, life, mediocrity, p315, truth, wisdom
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    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.”
    ― Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
    tags: catholic, catholicism, life, p364, tolerance, wisdom
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: freedom-of-religion, religion
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book
    tags: education, humor
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of hte god within.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    “Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.”
    ― Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
    tags: p89, patience, persistence, wisdom
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    John Rosemond
    “The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.”
    ― John Rosemond, A Family of Value
    tags: life, loc2536, parenting, wisdom
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    Pope John Paul II
    “The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.”
    ― Pope John Paul II
    tags: christianity
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book
    tags: wisdom
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: self-control, self-mastery
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: discipline, freedom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book
    tags: knowledge, limitations, mysteries, wisdom
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  • #26
    “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
    ― Michael Levine
    tags: wisdom
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: application, doing, learning
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: balance, effectiveness
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    Pope Benedict XVI
    “The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.”
    ― Pope Benedict-XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis: On the Eucharist as the Source and Summit of the Church's Life and Mission
    tags: catholicism, christianity, education, faith, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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