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““No one will seek the highest [things] if he believes that there is no truth, that nothing is his fault, and that government will guarantee his wants.””

James V. Schall

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“Hell is a consequence of one’s own free choice. It would not exist if free choice did not exist or, better, if free choice were not used badly. It is not imposed arbitrarily from the outside by pitiless gods but grows logically from inside a human soul. It is the result of someone’s making himself what he wants to be,…

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