"Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century."

-- Mike Ferguson

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“In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.”
“Ah, Jenks? Itâ€™s not a lake, itâ€™s a frigginâ€™ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. Iâ€™m not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas.”
“Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.”

Source : James Sheridan Knowles (1823). “Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.23
“There are basically two approaches to solving the problem of terrorism. One is that you understand the mind of the terrorist in order to establish defenses against it. The other is that you kill all the terrorists and all the potential terrorists.”
“I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.”
“If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.”
“The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, p.205, SteinerBooks
“...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.”

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