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"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."
"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."
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"What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?"
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"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."
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"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."
"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."
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"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."
"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."
"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
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