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Caritas Malta - Details of the message, mission, vision, and values of the Church Secretariat for Social and Charitable Action, which co-ordinates and develops work among the sick, the elderly, persons with special needs, drug users and other people in difficulty.
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Society and Culture The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël Society and Culture The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Society and Culture An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Society and Culture The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Society and Culture I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Society and Culture Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Society and Culture And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Society and Culture "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Society and Culture Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed Society and Culture Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Society and Culture Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Society and Culture "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Society and Culture I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Society and Culture There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Society and Culture
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