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• When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Disappointment, Children, Ambition

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• Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

  Mike Ferguson

  Spiritual, Powerful, Leader

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• Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Country, Fighting, Injustice

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• Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.

  Peter Slipper

  Church, Trying, Visionaries

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

  Philip Johnson

  Pride, People, Corporations

  "Architect Philip Johnson Dies at 98". www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2005.

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• If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!

  Pierre Daninos

  Dog, Believe, Animal

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• The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Bible, Self, Dogma

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.40, tredition

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• A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

  Karl Marx

  Party, Europe, Police

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo.

  Paul Krassner

  Would Be, John Paul, Ringo

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• [Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

  Lech Walesa

  Would Be, John Paul Ii, Communism

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• Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Religious, People, Community

  "Benedict XVI: the Vatican's orthodox insider is new Pope" by Stephen Bates and John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2005.

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• Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Two, Glasses

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

  George H. W. Bush

  Attitude, Men, Soul

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• There are many serious and knotty issues that I must face each day, but the Pope Francis reminds me by his example and his words that Christ has already redeemed creation and we are saved, even when that might not be so obvious because of the world's many problems and our own grievous sinfulness.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Serious, Problem, Christ

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• It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Kings, Women, Government

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• God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Giving, Good Man

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1983). “Freedom Or Death: A Novel”, Touchstone

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• Half Europe thought... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.

  Joseph Rickaby

  Europe, Half

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• The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.

  Matthew Arnold

  School, Differences, Soul

  Essays in Criticism Second Series, "Thomas Gray" (1888)

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• I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi.

  Ray Romano

  Mother, Kids, Italian

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• We're all God's children. We are all special people, and the Pope is no different.

  Igor Babailov

  Children, Special People, Religion

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• Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.

  Pope Gregory XVI

  Country, United States, States

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• I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Doubt, Frank

  Interview with Bill Maher, 2013.

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• You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

  Bob Dylan

  Rays, Safe, Palaces

  Song: Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight, Album: Infidels

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• So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  World, Concerned

  H.P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Collection”, p.1820, Xist Publishing

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