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"It is certainly a challenge for a teacher
not only to present the truth to students
but also to motivate them to choose it over the alternatives."
Joel Tom Tate
"Pass-Fail 101" in Touchstone, June 2004
"Don't worry if your jobs are small
and your rewards are few.
Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you."
Background noise in the editor's office.
"No one has a direct vocation from God
to be a couch potato."
Mitch Pacwa, S.J.
EWTN, June 15th, 2004
"It may be true that legislation cannot change the heart,
but it can restrain the heartless."
Travis Klopfenstein
"Americans United for Life"
in Touchstone, June 2004
"I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life.
It makes my peas taste funny,
but it keeps them on my knife."
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"We attack bad thinking not mainly because it is bad
and therefore an offense to the Creator
who gave man reason,
but because people who think badly will act badly
and thus increase human suffering
in this life and the next."
David Mills, Editor
Touchstone, June 2004
"To apply the argument of equal justice,
all circumstances must be equal.
A man cannot claim the right to bear a baby
because women do so.
A five-foot tall man doesn't have a right
to play professional basketball
because six-foot tall men do so.
A blind person
doesn't have the right to pilot a plane
because sighted persons do so."
Frank Morriss
The True Nature of Conscience, June, 2004
"I have always thought
that the Declaration of Independence was,
in its way,
a prayer.
God is referred to in it four times."
Michael Novak
Former U.S. Ambassador, June 2004
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