"[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The sacrifices of the Old Covenant contained the true sacrifice of Christ's Passion only in symbol....Therefore it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Covenant, instituted by Christ, have something more, namely, that it contain Christ Himself who has suffered and contain Him not only in symbol but in reality."

-- Thomas Aquinas

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“Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
“If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.”
“Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.”

Source : J. Oswald Sanders (2009). “Spiritual Discipleship: Principles of Following Christ for Every Believer”, p.103, Moody Publishers
“I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.”
“Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.”

Source : James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223
“A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.”
“I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.”
“I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.”

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