It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can. - Sargent Shriver

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I hold that when a person dies <br> His soul returns again to earth; <br> Arrayed in some new flesh disguise <br> Another mother gives him birth <br> With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

Sargent Shriver

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

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Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.

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What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.

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It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.

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The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.

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It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose. . . You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.

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James Russell Lowell

The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with anothers need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

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John Masefield

I hold that when a person dies
His soul returns again to earth;
Arrayed in some new flesh disguise
Another mother gives him birth
With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

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Rita Mae Brown

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

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Vilfredo Pareto

Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.

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