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Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
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Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Mourning is a hard business, Cesare said. If people knew there'd be less death.
Life is Better than Death, in Idiots First
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