"Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure."

-- Alphonsus Rodriguez

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“Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.”
“Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.”
“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?”

Source : C.P. SNOW (1963). “THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK”
“Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The best thing to do with a bad smell is to get rid of it.”
“The good is the greatest rival of the best.”
“I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.”
“We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it”

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