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The Popes, like Jesus, are conceived by their mothers through the over- shadowing of the Holy Ghost.
All Popes are a certain species of man-gods, for the purpose of being able to conduct the functi...
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
-- James Stephens (1882-1950) "The Crock of Gold" (1930)...
It is a newspaper's duty to print the news, and raise hell.
-- Wilbur F. Storey (1819-1884) Editor, Chicago Times (1861)...
Make haste slowly. -- Suetonius (c.70-c.140 CE) "Lives of the Ceasa
The state, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.
-- William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) "The Forgotten Man" an 1883 addre...
Hence to fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence
supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting....
We are, because God is. -- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) "Divine Providence
Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1706)...
There is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travel...

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