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"We can't allow ourselves to behave loosely! It's the blood of our martyrs which has nourished the flowers of our republic. To allow oneself to behave indecently is to trample on the blood of those who gave their lives for our freedom."- Convocation from Persepolis.

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“If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful painting or carved the most exquisite figure I could not have felt the more exalted creator than I did when they placed my child in my arms.”-Dorothy Day.
"That kind of love decenters the self. It reminds you that your true riches are in another. Most of all, this love electrifies. It puts you in a state of need and makes it delightful to serve what you love."-David Brook, The Moral Bucket List.

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"People on this road see life as a process of commitment making. Character is defined by how deeply rooted you are. Have you developed deep connections that hold you up in times of challenge and push you toward the good?"- David Brook, The Moral Bucket LIst.

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"Individual will, reason and compassion are not strong enough to consistently defeat selfishness, pride, and self-deception. We all need redemptive assistance from outside."-David Brook, The Moral Bucket List.

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"You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." Wild Geese. Puritans believed that anything that doesn't coincide with their religion was sin. So you had strict guidelines to follow, you couldn't always do what you loved.

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You don't have to be better than others. you just have to be better than you used to be. Moral Bucket List

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"The stumbler does not build her life by being better than others, but by being better than she used to be."-David Brook, The Moral Bucket List

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"This gift of love overcame, sometimes, the natural self centeredness all of us feel."-David Brook, The Moral Bucket List

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"Character is built during the confrontation with your own weakness."-Moral Bucket List

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It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest of which they are innately capable, and be recognized for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position. - A better life: creating the American dream.

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Each person has the right to pursue happiness - not as self indulgence, but as fair ambition and creative drive - A better life: creating the American dream.

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It's the belief that in the U.S., people are free to pursue opportunity, and that through hard work, they can make a better life for themselves and their children- A better life: creating the American dream

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"The stumbler scuffs through life, a little off balance. But the stumbler faces her imperfect nature with unvarnished honesty, with the opposite of squeamishness. Recognizing her limitations, the stumbler at least has a serious foe to overcome and transcend" Moral Bucket List (Sin)

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"so I close in saying, that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for."
-Lou Gehrig
-Conclusion: Lives worth living in a secular age

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"Character is built during the confrontation of your own weakness."-David Brook

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"Meanwhile the sun and the clear bubbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies, and the deep trees , the mountains and the rivers." - Wild Geese

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"Not sacred but devoid of intrinsic worth, ready to be molded to our desired and will."- Lives worth living in a secular age

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"Those who have achieved a profound humility have been able to identify their core sin, whether it is selfishness, the desperate need for approval, cowardice, hardheartedness or whatever. They have traced how that core sin leads to the behavior that makes them feel ashamed."-David Brook

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"Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on." - Wild Geese

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"You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves"-Wild Geese

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"Wonderful people are made, not born- that people achieve an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments"- David Brook

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"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting." -Wild Geese (Original Sin)

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"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination" -Wild Geese