"How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace."

-- Pope Francis

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“American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.”
“Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.”
“In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?”

Source : Robert Charles Winthrop (1878). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878”
“You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.”
“We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.”
“Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.”
“Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.”
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”

Source : A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)

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