Madeleine Sophie Barat famous quotes
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Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.
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As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.
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We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often.
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An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.
-- Madeleine Sophie Barat
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.
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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.
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