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“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” - Plato ...

"The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage." - Barbara Kingsolver ...

"We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our ...

"As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent.... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and ...

“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”                 ― Pope John Paul II ...

"Contrary to today’s stereotypes, racists do not always chew tobacco and drive pickup trucks with gun racks. They wear silk shirts, treat women as possessions, and talk about human rights at cocktail parties far from communities of people of color ...

"Sometimes, you have to step outside the person you believe yourself to be.  And remember the person you were meant to be.  The person you wanted to be." - H.G. Wells ...

"Unfinished... Gauti to his credit never gave up on his dream but that is usually not how it goes, i mean usually it isn't a speeding bus that keeps the brown pointy weird church from being built.  Most of the ...

"The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine." - Sue Patton Thoele ...

"People throw rocks at things that shine." - Taylor Swift ...