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Living well is the best revenge.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
At any one time the world has a very limited number of Steve Jobs or Winston Churchills or Thomas Watson the firsts. These are wonderful people and we can learn much from them, but praying for a few more of them to solve the world's problems is not a great idea.
That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.
Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large and small businesses, significantly reduce burdensome regulations, and unleash America's energy resources.
It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!
Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.
Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
I am the herald of the Great King.
Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.
At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.
