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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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22.1.08

Why should the resources of human genius and the riches of the people turn more often to preparing arms ... than to increasing the welfare of all classes of citizens and particularly of the poor?
-Pope John XXIII
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker newspaper,
picketing against the Atomic Bomb, New York, 1959
Vivan Cherry Monroe Gallery
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"The Pope is Dead. Long Live the Pope/Viva John XXIII"
By Dorothy Day November 1958
The Catholic Worker

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