Francis of Assisi Quotes
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
Francis of Assisi
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
R. Kelly
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
Harald zur Hausen
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
Sai Baba
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
Laura Dern
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I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.
Yannis Philippakis
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Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
John Calvin
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There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
Queen Elizabeth II
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Kernik had stumbled on an immutable truth, a truth older than the world. Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by chipping them from stone. Secondly, and more importantly, by believing in them, believing in them utterly.
Tanith Lee
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My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.
Euzhan Palcy
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We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
Francis of Assisi
