"I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one."
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"To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be able to enter into the problems and the joys of all, to understand all, to be all things to all."
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"God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But if I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of Him that I was meant to embody, I shall be full of his actuality and find him everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere."
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"Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate."
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"2020. There'll be cold fusion. We'll actually be able to power our cars with our own feces. That's right. The emissions problem will be a little intense, but just light a match."
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"When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things."
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"I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge"
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"Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax."
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"In the midst of chaos, you've gotta be able to slow it down. That's one of the things that God's gifted me with, it's one of the things that I've trained for, and train for now."
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"I feel like doing basic, casual pieces and then doing really elevated, more unexpected things is becoming more possible. I feel like I do eventually want to be able to address more categories, like active or evening."
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"By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death."
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"Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever."
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"It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others."
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"To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism."
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"Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised."
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"It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity."
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"I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that."
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"Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do."
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"To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it."
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"What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love."
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