"That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy."

-- David Brooks

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“Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.”
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

Source : Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore (1938). “Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]”
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
“I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.”
“The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty.”

Source : "Leaving the Fold". "This American Life" podcast, 258, www.thisamericanlife.org. January 30, 2004.
“Well, replace the word 'kinda' with the word 'repeatedly,' and the word 'dog' with 'son.'”
“Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.”
“I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.”

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