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"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty."

"Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum."

"One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest."

"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners."

"Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety."

"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."

"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

"St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return."

"As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself."
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