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Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict. -- J. M. Coetzee
We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict, -- Alasdair MacIntyre
Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow. -- Colman McCarthy
In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict. -- Peter Maurin

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