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29 August, 2003 - Quotation of the day
Posted Aug 30, 2003
"Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited."
PIUS X
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28 August, 2003 - Quotation of the day
Posted Aug 29, 2003
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
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27 August, 2003 - Quotation of the day
Posted Aug 28, 2003
"Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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26 August, 2003 - Quotation of the day
Posted Aug 27, 2003
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Douglas Adams
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25 August, 2003 - Quotation of the day
Posted Aug 26, 2003
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
G. K. Chesterton
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