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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Soul
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
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Intelligence
Being
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
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Life
Order
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
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Work
Civilization
Greatness
Lies
Spirituality
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
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Dreams
Pleasure
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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War
Nation
Renunciation
Self
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
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Science
God
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
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Imagination
Life
History
Influence
Needs
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Serenity
Struggle
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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Church
Beliefs
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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Power
Virtue
Attention
Humility
Nothing
Order
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
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Being
Chance
Hunger
Obligation
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Faith
Love
God
May
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
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God
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
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Men
Fear
Blame
Punishment
Smiles