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Benedict’s Rule is a detailed set of instructions for how to organize and govern a monastic community, in which monks (and separately, nuns) live together in poverty and chastity.2 That is common to all monastic living, but Benedict’s Rule
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“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
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“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
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“Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.”
― The General's Daughter
― The General's Daughter
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
― The Ascent of Man
― The Ascent of Man
“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
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