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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. Pope John Paul II
Justice Attained Cannot Social Create Social Justice Violence
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II
Religion Science Purify Superstition Absolutes Idolatry False Error
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Progress Fork Cannibal Uses
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Love Culture People Old Care Affection Incurable Tyrants Mines Easy Fond Point True Toward Make How Test Dictators Behaves Gold Being Children To Love Helpless Even
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. Pope John Paul II
Life Great Family Selfish People Independence Become Society Danger Pleasure Lies Fact Comfort Idols Close Hearts Family Life Any Midst Whose
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. Jerzy Kosinski
Art Evoke True True Art Principles Portray
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. Pope John Paul II
Family Parents Become Others Way Member Both Maintain Joyful Children Much Requires Special Each Servant
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. Frederic Chopin
Art Achievement Simplicity Reward Final Emerges More Vast Crowning Quantity After Notes Played
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Loneliness Man Soul Water Sky Those Between Another Whole Two
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie
Life Nature Me Made My Life Sights All My Life Through New Like Child Rejoice
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. Marie Curie
Has-Been See Only Remains Never Been Done Notices
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. Pope John Paul II
Problems Men Resolve Never Arms Violence
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. Pope John Paul II
Dignity Maturity Matter Word Christ Church Duty Proof Priest Vow His Celibacy Personal Expression Keeping Inner
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. Abraham Joshua Heschel
God Logical Darkness Light Assumptions Immediate Insight Something He Hypothesis Self-Evident Sought Derived Reason
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes. Frederic Chopin
You Soul Heart Miserable Pour Out No-One Share Joys Sorrows How Woes Oh Heavy Your Whom
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad
Face Way Facing Through Always Get
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. Lech Walesa
Truth Strength Patriotism Dignity People Nation Live Harmony Our Sole Solidarity Seek Source Intelligentsia Workers Who Conscience Basic Peasants
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. Marie Curie
Progress Way Neither Easy Nor Taught Swift
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. Pope John Paul II
Life Love Today God Day Loyalty You Honesty Grace Words Will Before Solemn Promise Constitute Entire Entire Life Only Divine Observe Anniversary Vows Principle Want Formulate Your Help
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. Pope John Paul II
Experience Increases Adding Alienation Collectivism Rather Economic Countries Sadly Inefficiency Does Historical Lack Socialist Away Basic Necessities
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. Stefan Banach
Beautiful Mathematics Most Beautiful Creation Spirit Powerful Most Most Powerful Human Human Spirit
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Joseph Conrad
Enemy Thought Action Friend Flattering Illusions
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. Marie Curie
Natural Impress Though He Mere Tales Also Him Fairy Fairy Tales Scientist Were His Laboratory Child Natural Phenomena Confronting Technician Phenomena
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. Pope John Paul II
Home Mother Soil Kiss Duty Difficult Consider Our Earthly Sublime Hands Placed Moment Homeland Difficult Moment
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. Wislawa Szymborska
Love True Love Faith Saying People Will Live Easier Find Never True Make Die Them Who Keep Thing
Man is a messenger who forgot the message. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man Message Messenger Forgot Who
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