Francis Arinze Quotes
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.
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A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
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Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.'
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It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.
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A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.
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In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.
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The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They're setting up colleges. They're setting up universities. They're setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.
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Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!
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Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed
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The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.
