Pope Francis Quotes
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I live a normal life.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
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I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
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Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent.
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Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.
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Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.
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τὸ φρικωδέστατον οὖν τῶν κακῶν ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς͵ ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν͵ ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν͵ ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ͵ τόθ΄ ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν.
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I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.
