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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."

"The reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in 'calories,' which are little units that measure how good a particular food tastes. Fudge, for example, has a great many calories, whereas celery, which is not really a food at all but a member of the plywood family, provided by Mother Nature so that mankind would have a way to get onion dip into his mouth at parties, has none."
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"I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers."

"As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile."

"We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production."

"Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life."

"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy."

"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"

"Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again."

"Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them."
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