Pope Francis Quotes
The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.
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Every tour is different. We like to give people a piece of something.
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Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.
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The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.
