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Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
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Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every…
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America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered…
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward…
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At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when…
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God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.
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A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to…
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It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or…
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Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from…
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of…
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Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning…
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A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would…
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The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
— Elayne Boosler
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If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe,…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican…
— Alistair Cooke
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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict…
— John William Draper
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This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony…
— Pope Pius XI
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One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios…
— Unknown Author
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In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds…
— Sean Young
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Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th…
— Bill Maher
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The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by…
— Adolf Hitler
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
— David Berlinski
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Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted…
— Malachi Martin
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