Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
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Anonymous,
The New Jerusalem Bible
One suspects that the conservatives of left and right don t much like the mass and its badly informed preferences. Let us take care of you, they cry. Let tradition celebrated by wise elders, or planning implemented by wise experts, guide you, oh you sadly misled mass. The ruling lords and the monopolists view the clerisy s conservative theorizing with delight, resting assured that the elders and the planners will inadvertently shield their rents.
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Deirdre McCloskey
You don’t fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don’t take him at all…adjustments can’t be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what’s being built just falls down.
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Nora Roberts,
Tears of the Moon
We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.
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Bill Watterson
Before eating food, always take time to thank God.
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Vikrant Parsai
Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.
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Joan Chittister OSB
Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels… Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism… Let us say to the people not ‘How much have you got ‘ but ‘How best can we serve you
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Norman Bethune
Never dance in a puddle when there’s a hole in your shoe it’s always best to take your shoes off first.
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John D. Rhodes
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