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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
People
Achieve
Some
Temptation
Never
Felt
Genuinely
Sainthood
Saints
Probable
Human
Want
Human Beings
Much
Aspire
Who
Many
Beings
'The Post' is a fairly fusty place when it comes to profanity. If a reporter tries to get a bad word into a story, the word is usually forwarded to top editors, who consider it with the gravity and speed that the Vatican applies to candidates for sainthood.
David Fahrenthold
Post
Word
Speed
Consider
Top
Bad
Tries
Vatican
Fairly
Editors
Sainthood
Get
Reporter
Candidates
Story
Place
Profanity
Who
Gravity
When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.
Dick Morris
History
People
Entitled
Some
Pretty
Obscure
Written
Sainthood
Going
The History Of
Century
Who
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
Jonathan Haidt
Politics
War
People
Genocide
Heroism
Morality
Gives
Also
Altruism
Sainthood
Us
Groups
Binds
I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.
K'naan
Music
Anger
People
Darkness
Sense
Rage
Recognize
Would
Give
Most
Sainthood
Up
Times
Want
Moments
Even
Necessarily
Creep