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“An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.”
Source : Georges Canguilhem (2000). “A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem”
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“I am who I am and I have the need to be.”
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“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”
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“I'm still trying to decide. It's a really difficult one because I really enjoy my time in the Air Force. And I'd love to continue it. But the pressures of my other life are building. And fighting them off or balancing the two of them has proven quite difficult.”
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“Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.”
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“There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.”
Source : "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.
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“A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed. A new age in which love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty - a new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption that deaden our souls and poison our relationships.”
Source : Eucharistic Celebration On The Occasion Of The 23-rd World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.
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“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.”