"At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world."

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Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

Israel Shenker

#Squares Quotes #Two Quotes #Catholic Quotes

“Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.”
“Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.”
“Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.”

Source : Nick Cohen (2000). “Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous”, p.126, Verso
“It hit me very early on that something was terribly wrong, that I would see silos full of food and supermarkets full of food, and kids starving. ... In Fair Trade, we see ourselves as this infinitesimal part of the world economy. But somebody's got to come up with an alternative model that says children eating is No. 1.”
“There's nothing that you can't overcome with God on your side.”
“I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something”
“It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.”
“That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.”

Source : Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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