"The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom."
-Thomas Merton
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"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.“
-Thomas Merton
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"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."
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"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
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"At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish."
-Hillary Clinton
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"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
-Milan Kundera
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"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."
-Zora Neale Hurston
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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
-E. M. Forster
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