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Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. – Christopher Dawson

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And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens. – Christopher Dawson

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Faith
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Christopher Dawson
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You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. – Christopher Dawson

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Food
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Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual. – Friedrich Schiller

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Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Fame consists in dying in action and getting your name misspelled on the casualty lists. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society. – Charles Rangel

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