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• If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

  David Halberstam

  Stories, World, Sin

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• If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

  Benmont Tench

  Song, Attention, Sin

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• I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

  Aaron Neville

  Awards, Heard, Chosen

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• The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Heart, Flames, Orchard

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.2996, eBookIt.com

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• The Cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. The fact that the Lord knows how to work and to act even with inadequate instruments comforts me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Humble, Mean

  Pope Benedict XVI's First Greeting as Pope, w2.vatican.va. April 19, 2005.

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• The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Dream, Book, Knights

  'The Ingoldsby Legends' (First Series, 1840) 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'

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• People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Winning, People

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• Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.

  Miller Huggins

  Hands, Two, Yankees

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• Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Honesty, People, Virtue

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

  John Burns

  Mind, Three, Drink

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• November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.

  Jean Hersey

  Running, Morning, Wall

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

  Franz Kafka

  Two, Nonchalance, Paradise

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• There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things that are often hidden. I know some who concern themselves with feeding the poor or who give up their free time to work in a parish. As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise ... a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Giving Up, Fall

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• Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, War, Simple

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• There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

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• [Cardinal John O'Connor] had [my wife] Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch.

  Nat Hentoff

  Couple, Kids, Scotch

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

  Steven Pressfield

  Virtue, Contempt

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.160, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage.

  John I. Jenkins

  Prayer, Together, Going Out

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• For nearly a decade now, I've been teaching others how to thrive by filling their bodies with energizing vitamins, nutrients, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients. Not a day goes by when someone doesn't write me to say, "Thanks, I feel better now, too." Those letters from my readers are my digital cardinals.

  Kris Carr

  Teaching, Writing, Feel Better

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• When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

  Karl Abraham

  Psychosis, World, Patient

  Karl Abraham (1968). “Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones”

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• One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Names, Sin

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Sin, Terrorism

  "Meet Fethullah Gülen, the World’s Top Public Intellectual". Foreign Policy Interview, foreignpolicy.com. August 4, 2008.

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• The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

  Laozi

  Nature, Expectations, Four

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• Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Buddhism, Ethical Principles, Harm

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• Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious.

  Ian Kershaw

  Religious, Men, Catholic

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