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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. – Joseph Ratzinger

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We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. – Joseph Ratzinger

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legal
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Joseph Ratzinger
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The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution. – Joseph Ratzinger

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Women
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Society

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. – Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers, 1942

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Society

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. – John Madden

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To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. – Margaret Oliphant

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Society

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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas. – Mac Thornberry

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon

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Change

Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877

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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. – Maya Lin

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War