Christopher West Quotes
The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can be morally acceptable, even praiseworthy. However, if it replaces the marital embrace as the means by which the child is conceived, it's not in keeping with God's design.
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The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
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In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
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I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.
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Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.
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I did spend much of my 20s sitting on a couch playing video games and ordering disgusting food.
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There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.
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You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?
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The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can be morally acceptable, even praiseworthy. However, if it replaces the marital embrace as the means by which the child is conceived, it's not in keeping with God's design.
