"Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth."

-- Pope Pius XII

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“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”
“In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.”
“It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are.”
“I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that far, it's just awfully black. There's not much there except mud and some particles. I imagine space would be a similar thing. The only difference is you're hoping to bump into some sort of intelligent extraterritorial being.”
“Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.”

Source : Randolph Bedford (1976). “Naught to thirty-three”, Melbourne University
“You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.”
“Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.”
“I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.”

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