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  • In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

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  • Robert Smith Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
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  • Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Abbe Pierre After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Cardinal de Retz Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
    As quoted in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
    As quoted in Champlains Dream (2008)
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Bill Walsh If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Carl Bernstein In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Cardinal de Retz It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Cardinal de Retz Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Bruce Sutter My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • W. H. Auden Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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