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• There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

  W. H. Auden

  Matter, Three, Funny Business

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• Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow men (or 'to society') to represent the results of his study as simply, clearly and modestly as he can. The worst thing that intellectuals can do - the cardinal sin - is to try to set themselves up as great prophets vis-à-vis their fellow men and to impress them with puzzling philosophies. Anyone who cannot speak simply and clearly should say nothing and continue to work until he can do so.

  Karl Popper

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years".

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• Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

  Kris Carr

  Grandma, Grandmother, Bird

  "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

  George Carlin

  Running, Home, School

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name of Deity is enjoined in holy writ. Jesus made this clear when teaching His disciples to pray. He said, addressing the Father, "Hallowed be thy name: (see Matthew 6:9). Blaspheming the name of God separates man from his Creator."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Jesus, Father

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

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• In this case [the Charlemagne Prize], I don't say (I was) forced, but convinced by the holy and theological headstrongness of Cardinal [Walter] Kasper, because he was chosen, elected by Aachen to convince me. And I said yes, but in the Vatican. And I said I offer it for Europe, as a co-decoration for Europe, a prize so that Europe may do what I desired at Strasburg; that it may no longer be "grandmother Europe" but "mother Europe."

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Europe, May

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn’t have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

  Eva Longoria

  College, Priorities, Pell Grants

  Eva Longoria's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Humility, Virtue

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• Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Men, Years

  Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 15, 2008.

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• There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Art, Spring

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• In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

  Robert De Niro

  Money, Gambling, Play

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• Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

  James C. Collins

  Teacher, Winning, Games

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• The only birds I know about are the duck and the dove and the quail, birds that you shoot. You're not really supposed to shoot cardinals. I don't know if I'd shoot this bird. It looks pretty mean. This bird might pull a gun out and shoot right back at you.

  Josh McCown

  Mean, Gun, Ducks

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• Stan Musial, who said, Why didn't they make me the first Polish pope? I was such a good Cardinal. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Dinner, Firsts, Pope

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• The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

  David Letterman

  Children, Catholic, Church

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• A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Order, Principles, Scarcity

  "Lay Up in Store". Keith B. McMullin's priesthood session address at the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. April 2007.

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• The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo.

  Craig Ferguson

  Names, Choices, Firsts

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• Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Self, Instinct

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.211, Modern Library

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• The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Vices, Today, Exhilaration

  The Defendant "A Defence of Humility" (1901)

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• Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Stupid, Ignorance, Media

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• If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.

  Seamus Heaney

  Distance, Taken, Self

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