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"Financial aid is a legacy and a justice due to the poor that our Lord Jesus Christ acquired for us. It is not a virtue for the rich to give to the poor – it is an simple act of justice." – St. Francis of Assisi (Earlier Rule 9)
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized. -Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized. -Gilbert K. Chesterton
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman." – Anais Nin
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"We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in the love of mankind." – Henry Ward Beecher
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"It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h" – Napoleon Bonaparte
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. -George B. Mere
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. -George B. Mere
"I beheld the wretch – the miserable monster whom I had created" – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“I beheld the wretch – the miserable monster whom I had created” – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Time wounds all heels. -Goodman Ace
Time wounds all heels. -Goodman Ace