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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."

"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."

"Gold may shine, but it has no true light."

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

"People who do not have a price tag attached to them are priceless."

"Even the most beautiful girl in the world becomes unsightly without depth of character."

"The difference between working for a salary and working for your promise land is that when you work for a salary, you are exchanging your life just for some porridge, some little compensation in the form of salary."
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"Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church."

"We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well."

"This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction."

"We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world."

"No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart."

"I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World."

"Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting."

"Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor."

"I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that."
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