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“The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.”

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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

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“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.”

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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

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Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

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I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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