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Quote by 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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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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Society
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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. – Christopher Dawson

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Religion
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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. – Christopher Dawson

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Men
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I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated. – Avril Lavigne

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I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city. – Emeril Lagasse

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Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. – Holly Near

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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it – what a huge problem it was and how it wasnt a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will. – Jeff Bridges

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