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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
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"Poor men's reasons are not heard."
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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."
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"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women."
Men
"Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?"
Love
"You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture."
Being
"I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion."
Religion
"Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?"
People
"The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half."
Leadership
"Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits."
Religion
"I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century."
Death
"I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad."
Disability
"I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude."
Decision
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