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"The Divine Will contains the creative strenght. From within God's one single "Fiat" came out billions and billions of stars. From the Fiat Mihi" of the Mother of God, from which Redemption had its origin, came out billions and billions of acts of grace, which communicate themselves to souls. These acts of grace are more beautiful, more resplendent and more varied than billions of stars! The Divine Fiat is full of life, and in fact It is life itself, and alla lives and things come out from within the Fiat. From the Fiat of God, Creation came out, and in each created thing can be seen the imprint of that Fiat. From the "Fiat Mihi" of the Blessed Virgin, pronounced in the Divine Will with the same power of the Fiat of Creation, Redemption came forth. Therefore everything that concerns the Redemption bears the imprint of her "Fiat Mihi".Even the very Humanity of her Son, His steps, works and words, were sealed with Mary's "Fiat Mihi"."

"If Mary is full of grace, it is because she is the Mother of God."

"In our world of darkness, we need to turn to Mary, who gave us Jesus, the light of the world. In our culture of death, we need to turn to Mary, the first disciple to hear and proclaim the gospel of life. In our secularist society, we need to turn back to God. Mary, the mother of God, and our mother, will show us the way and lead us back to her son, our Lord. The nation, the world, who forgets the mother, is in danger of forgetting the Son, in danger of losing our way back to God."

"I esteem immensely the Mother of God, the ever chaste, immaculate Virgin Mary."

"Christ ... was born of a most undefiled Virgin."

"It was fitting that such a holy Son should have a holy Mother."

"There was no readiness for soldiering in this truck, no stern and cocky welcoming of challenges. They sounded - oh, Mother of God - they sounded like children."

"Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.” :And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! For you sit to judge me according to the law, and do you command me to be struck contrary to the law?”"

"We're learning so much about this virus and the immune response to it in a way that we've never done previously."

"The one thing that matters is where we are in this whole pandemic. I would be watching what the variants are doing."

"There is a considerable amount of bias in peer review, and we need to come up with systems to extract that bias so that articles can be reviewed fairly."

"It is early days, and we have a lot of work left to do in this area. I think for us, really looking at the cells that can respond to the infection has given us a unique insight into even long-term COVID-19."

"The take-home is, so far, so good, but time will tell."

"I think that is going to be a really hard thing for us to be able to predict. The only thing that is going to tell us how long this immunity lasts is people's resistance to disease."

"We also need to strive to do more rigorous studies of human immune responses."

"How can we find suitable words to praise Zerubbabel, | who was like a signet ring on the right hand? | So too was Jeshua, the son of Jozadak; | in their days they rebuilt the house | and raised a temple holy to the Lord, | destined for everlasting glory."

"Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says the Lord; ‘and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land,’ says the Lord, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remains among you; do not fear!’"

"Did you notice that Our Mother in Lourdes did not simply say, as she did in Paris on Rue du Bac, that she was conceived without sin, but rather, “I am the Immaculate Conception”! She waited for the Church's proclamation of the dogma of her Holy Immaculate Conception to give us her personal identity before God."

"Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord. [...] So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius."

"entails the regulation of , cell expansion, and , and patterning of the organ as a whole. s are ideally suited to dissecting these processes. Petals are dispensable for growth and reproduction, enabling varied manipulations to be carried out with ease. In ', petals have a simple laminar structure with a small number of cell types, facilitating the analysis of organogenesis. This review summarizes recent studies that have illuminated some of the complex interplay between the s controlling petal specification, growth and differentiation in Arabidopsis. These advances, coupled with the advantages of using petals as a model , provide an excellent platform to investigate the underlying mechanisms driving plant organogenesis."

"Flowers are organized into concentric s of s, s, s and s, with each of these floral organ types having a unique role in ... Sepals enclose and protect the flower bud, while petals can be large and showy so as to attract s (or people!). Stamens produce pollen grains that contain male gametes, while the carpels contain the ovules that when fertilized will produce the seeds. While the size, shape, number and elaboration of each of these organ types can be quite different, the same general organization of four floral organ types arranged in concentric whorls exists across all species. As I shall explain in this Primer, the ‘ABC model’ is a simple and satisfying explanation for how this conserved floral architecture is genetically specified. What is the ABC model? The ABC model was first explicitly articulated in 1991, in a seminal paper by and . Although s affecting floral organ identity had been known for centuries, it was the systematic analyses of these mutations, and of the phenotypes produced by double and triple mutants, that proved to be critical in developing the ABC model."

"As a graduate student, I encountered a book that still inspires me: Classic Papers in Genetics edited by . Sadly, it is now out of print, but it is a wonderful compendium of many groundbreaking papers,starting with Mendel’s ‘Experiments in Plant Hybridization’. It also includes several papers by my scientific hero, , who figured out the principle of as an undergraduate, and whose papers are a model of clarity and careful reasoning. I also really enjoy reading Peters’ prefaces to each paper, which place each work in its scientific and historical context."

"How can we find suitable words to praise Zerubbabel, | who was like a signet ring on the right hand?"

"In that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel My servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says the Lord, ‘and will make you like a signet ring; for I have chosen you,’ says the Lord of hosts.”"

"The hands of Zerubbabel | Have laid the foundation of this temple; | His hands shall also finish it. | Then you will know | That the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. | For who has despised the day of small things? | For these seven rejoice to see | The plumb line | in the hand of Zerubbabel. | They are the eyes of the Lord, | Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth."

"Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says the Lord; ‘and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land,’ says the Lord, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remains among you; do not fear!’"

"This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: | ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ | Says the Lord of hosts. | ‘Who are you, O great mountain? | Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! | And he shall bring forth the capstone | With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!"

"Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord. [...] So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius."

"How glorious he was, with the people thronging around him, | as he emerged from behind the veil of the sanctuary. | He was like the morning star shining among the clouds, | like the full moon at the festal season, | like the sun shining on the temple of the Most High, | like the rainbow appearing in a cloudy sky, | like a rose in springtime, | like a lily by a spring of water, | like a green shoot on Lebanon on a summer’s day, | like incense set afire in the censer, | like a vessel of beaten gold | embellished with every kind of precious stone, | like an olive tree laden with fruit, | like a cypress reaching to the clouds."

"When he put on his magnificent robes | and clothed himself in his garments of splendor, | as he went up to the holy altar, | he brought majestic glory to the court of the sanctuary."

"It was the high priest Simon, son of Onias, | in whose lifetime the house was repaired | and in whose days the temple was fortified."

"Mary Immaculate, whose feast day is celebrated on December 8, is, by God's will, a sign of absolute perfection in a human creature: no person comes close to her heights of goodness and beauty, and no one, not even all the angels and saints combined, has greater intercessory power with the Almighty."

"The Holy Spirit descends upon you, who are the Immaculate One, to make you purer and give you the virtue of fertility."

"Without social communications there can be no democracy which is the system which teaches us how to be free, to communicate without restrictions and be able to express our opinions and criteria on matters regarding our country. We have no means of voicing our disagreement or revealing what is happening in Venezuela, which, according to the government, is a Disney country where everything is fine. According to government spokesmen, our country has no shortages, no unemployment, no insecurity. Where these things must be said, this is the job of the media, which must be the sensitive skin of society, communicating situations as they are, denouncing not just for the sake of reporting but in order to produce solutions."

"A relentless battler against conservative, unscientific economic orthodoxy"

"The post-Keynesian and institutionalist traditions have lost one of their most creative theorists and fervent supporters"

"His path led him to the conviction that the typical enterprise in 20th century capitalism is oligopolistic, with a clear separation between management and ownership."

"After his doctorate, the situation created by the decline of McCarthyism and the rise of the civil-rights and antiwar movements allowed Eichner and other mainstream economists to emerge as heterodox economists in the United States and even secure an academic position."

"General practitioners have been largely forgotten in primary healthcare."

"We must build prisons that humanize inmates."

"My country is, as we all know, under attack from its neighbor, Rwanda, under the cover of the M23 terrorist rebels."

"I move this motion before the principle member and all honourable members so that a law may emerge from this parliament allowing women to vote and women to be accepted as members of the parliament."

"There are many intelligent women in New Zealand who marry men who do not know how to run their land."

"If we are to discuss the importance of wāhine, we are also discussing the importance of whenua."

"Perhaps the Queen may listen to the petitions if they are presented by her Māori sisters, since she is a woman as well."

"[A] hui where wāhine Māori were able to discuss issues including the cessation of land sales, prohibition, and women's right to vote."

"From the first moment of her creation and infusion into the body, she had been preserved immune from the stain of original sin by a special grace and singular privilege of God, in anticipation of the merits of Jesus Christ, His Son and Redeemer of the human race."

"To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles."

"Immaculate Conception means that Mary anticipated, in some way, the ultimate condition towards which we are heading. In her, our future condition is revealed with privileged transparency."

"The Christian clergy are, in like manner, attired in the cast-off garb of the heathen priesthood; acting diametrically in opposition to their God's moral precepts, but nevertheless, sitting in judgment over the whole world. When dying on the cross, the martyred Man of Sorrows forgave His enemies. His last words were a prayer in their behalf. He taught his disciples to curse not, but to bless, even their foes. But the heirs of St. Peter, the self-constituted representatives on earth of that same meek Jesus, unhesitatingly curse whoever resists their despotic will. Besides, was not the "Son" long since crowded by them into the background? They make their obeisance only to the Dowager Mother, for — according to their teaching — again through "the direct Spirit of God," she alone acts as a mediatrix. The Ecumenical Council of 1870 embodied the teaching into a dogma, to disbelieve which is to be doomed forever to the 'bottomless pit.' The work of Don Pasquale di Franciscis is positive on that point; for he tells us that, as the Queen of Heaven owes to the present Pope "the finest gem in her coronet," since he has conferred on her the unexpected honor of becoming suddenly immaculate, there is nothing she cannot obtain from her Son for "her Church."*"