"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it."
-Pope John Paul II
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"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.“
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"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
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"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."
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"War is a defeat for humanity."
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