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"Holy Writ by the manner of its speech transcends every science, because in one and the same sentence, while it describes a fact, it reveals a mystery". Gregory Moralia xx.1

In vain may heroes fight and patriots rave
If secret gold creeps on from knave to knave [Pope]

220: "No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts"
241: I do not understand what is meant by the burden of responsibility. By the burden of decision, yes. Whether to put on a coat, or write a dispatch upon which war or peace may depend. Its degree depends on the materials which are available and not the least on the magnitude of results which may follow. With the results, I have nothing to do.
‑‑‑: "Good is sometimes done" said one of his children. "Yes, but never by you. Never allow yourself to believe that ... One should always try to do right, but cannot count on doing good" (Lord Salisbury). Cecil, David The Cecils of Hatfield House

350: In 1775, the British Colonial Secretary on slavery: "We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic which is so beneficial to the nation". [Lewis, Walker Without Fear or Favor: a Biography ... Roger Brooke Taney ]

"The world today produces more food per inhabitant than ever before. Enough is available to provide 4.3 pounds to every person every day". (Peter Rosset in the NYTimes, 1 Sept. 1999, A23]

"The most generous people in the world are the very poor, who assume each other's burdens in the crises which come so often to the hard pressed. The mother in the tenement falls ill and the neighbor in the next room assumes her burdens. The father loses his work, and neighbors supply food to his children from their own scanty store. How often one hears of cases where the orphans are taken over and brought up by the poor friend whose benefaction means great additional hardship! This sort of genuine service makes the most princely gift from superabundance look insignificant indeed ... The very poor give without any self-consciousness". p. 94 of Random Reminiscences of Men & Events (Sleepy Hollow Press 1984) by John D. Rockefeller. Yes, the original one, who made all their money.
JD also goes on to say: "I have been surprised to learn how far a given sum of money has gone in the hands of priests and nuns and how really effective is their use of it". [109]. He attributes this to "Organization".

A fine paragraph from Columban Mission (Sept./Oct. 1998 on Taiwan): "Most Taiwanese are bilingual, using both the Taiwanese and the Beijing or Mandarin dialects. On the surface, the Beijing dialect is almost always understood. If the object is to make yourself understood, then Mandarin is fine; but not if the object is to understand the people".

W.J. Bryan: "The Darwinian theory represents man as reaching his present perfection by the operation of the law of hate: the merciless law by which the strong crowd out and kill the weak". (Cited in NYRB 19 Nov 98, p.62)

"Realism is possible, materialism is not". Einstein on physics to Roy Wood Seltara, 15 Feb. 1942.

"Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance" [Thomas Aquinas. S.Th. 2.ii.Q.66.art.7]

In defending Freetradism (NYTimes, 4/17/99), Alan Greenspan did not mince words as he intoned: "It would be a great tragedy to stop the wheels of progress because of an incapacity to aid the victims of progress".

73: Bedier citing Didron: "Il faut conserver le plus possible, reparer le moins possible, ne restaurer a aucun prix. Ce qu'il disait des vielles pierres, il faut l'entendre de nos vieux beaux textes"

"Anger is a useless emotion in war". [D.L. Sayers]

331: Has Life a Meaning? When we reject belief in a god, we must give up the idea that life on this planet has some pre-ordained meaning. Life as a whole has no meaning. Life began, as the best available theories tell us, in a chance combination of molecules ... All this just happened” [Peter Singer]

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41: [Baring in C]: "What can it matter what church one goes to? if one thinks it necessary to go to church?". "Catholics think it does matter" said Beatrice.
"Yes, but Protestants don't" said C. "That's the beauty of being a Protestant".
"Yes, but although they don't mind anything else, they do mind Catholics" said Beatrice.