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On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

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Francis Bacon

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

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We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures.

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Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

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