"I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism."

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"Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed."

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"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."

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"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church."

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"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

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"What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust."

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"Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people."

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"Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people."

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"I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it."

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"No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them."

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"I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!"

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"Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it."

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"I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me."

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"I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try."

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"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character."

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